Lexical Elements of the DEC Text Processing Utility Language 4.3 Character Sets

4.3 Character Sets

When you invoke DECTPU, you can use one of the following keywords with the /CHARACTER_SET qualifier to specify the character set that you want DECTPU to use:

•DEC_MCS (for the DEC Multinational Character Set)

•ISO_LATIN1 (for the ISO Latin1 Character Set)

•GENERAL (for other general character sets)

•TPU$CHARACTER_SET (see the DCL help topic for this logical name)

Each character set is an 8-bit character set with 256 characters. Each character in a set is assigned a decimal equivalent number ranging from 0 to 255. Each character set uses an extension of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set for the first 128 characters. Table 4–1 shows the categories into which you can group the ASCII characters.

Table 4–1 Categories of ASCII Character Set Characters

Category

Meaning

 

 

0–31

Nonprinting characters such as tab, line feed, carriage return, and bell

32

Space

33–64

Special characters such as the ampersand ( & ), question mark ( ? ), equal

 

sign ( = ), and the numbers 0 through 9

65–122

The uppercase and lowercase letters A through Z and a through z

123–126

Special characters such as the left brace ( { ) and the tilde ( ~ )

127

Delete

 

 

The following sections discuss the types of character sets supported by DECTPU.

4.3.1 DEC Multinational Character Set (DEC_MCS)

The DEC Multinational Character Set characters from 128 to 255 are extended control characters and supplemental multinational characters. Table 4–2 shows the categories into which you can group the characters.

Table 4–2 Categories of DEC Multinational Character Set Characters

Category Meaning

128–159 Extended control characters

160 Reserved

161–191 Supplemental special graphics characters such as the copyright sign ( © ) and the degree sign ( ° )

192–254 The supplemental multinational uppercase and lowercase letters such as the Spanish Ñ and ñ

255 Reserved

For a complete list of characters in the DEC Multinational Character Set, see the OpenVMS documentation.

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