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Chapter 1 National Language Support in the TIBCO Object Service Broker Environment : Introduction

Introduction
This manual examines the National Language Support (NLS) features in TIBCO Object Service Broker. NLS provides users with the ability to enter, store, process, retrieve, display, and print character data in the language of their choice. You can use the characters present in Latin‑1 (Western European) single‑byte languages in:
Advantages of NLS
NLS provides:
You can choose the code pages used for display devices, for the character data fields in TDS, and for the character data used in peer-to-peer communication.
NLS ensures coherency in peer-to-peer communication by employing consistent rules for the mapping of lowercase characters to uppercase characters. In this manual, such mappings are referred to as folding.
You can enter data from a display device using one National EBCDIC representation and store that data in a TIBCO Object Service Broker Data Object Broker in another National EBCDIC representation. This ensures data integrity in a distributed multi-national (European or Latin‑1) environment.
Scope of NLS Support
The following items are supported:
Full access support for NLS-enhanced TDS tables: editing, browsing, searching, occurrence selection, sorting, and so on.
Accented characters (for example, é and ü), where such items are used as strings and not as object names. They are supported in applications and in titles, field labels, menu bars, and button labels.
Accented characters in generated reports, import files, and export files. However, in a TIBCO Object Service Broker z/OS environment using National EBCDIC, if system field and object names contain the special characters at sign (@), number sign (#), and dollar sign ($), substitution characters could be produced for those characters.

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