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 5250 Terminal Emulation Programmer’s Guide
Substituting National Characters
This topic tells how to create a file that remaps one character in the termi-
nal’s Terminal Font Set for another character in the set. Use this informa-
tion to provide characters on the terminal in the local language.
Intermec provides a table for converting from characters used in English
(U.S.) to German, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, French, Belgian, and
English (UK). The procedure for converting the characters appears first.
Then two slightly longer procedures show how to remap any character to
another. One procedure describes the steps with the symbol’s EBCDIC
value. The other one describes the steps without a value. Finally, examples
show the remap files for German characters and a few English symbols.
For all procedures, you need the terminal’s Terminal Font Set table. The
table lists characters and their decimal and hexadecimal values. For the
2415, 2425, 2435A, 2455, 2475, and 248X Terminals, refer to the termi-
nal’s user manual. For the 6400, 5020, 5055, 59XX, 17XX, or 11XX Ter-
minal, see Appendix D, “Terminal Font Set Table.”
Creating the File
Follow these steps to create a table that substitutes characters in the local
language for characters normally used in U.S. English. These steps apply if
the EBCDIC value is 4A, 4F, 5A, 5B, 5F, 6A, 79, 7B, 7C, 7F, A1, C0,
D0, or E0.
1 Find the character to replace in the “EBCDIC Values” table on page
247 and determine its EBCDIC value.
2 Find the default translation value in the ASCIIEquivalentsforEBCDIC
Values (2415, 2425, 2435A, 2455, 2475, 248X) table on page 247 or
the ASCII Equivalents for EBCDIC Values (6400, 5020, 5055, 59XX,
17XX, 11XX, 700 Series) table on page 248.
3 Using the default value from step 2, search the terminal’s Terminal Font
Set f or the character. If the default character is correct, you are done. If
incorrect, go to step 4.
4 Search the terminal’s Terminal Font Set for the character you want.
5 Create file 3270.XLT. Put the default value of the font character (found
in step 2) as the fir st byte in the f ile. Put the r eplacement value (f ound
in step 4) as the second byte in the file.
6 Repeat steps 1 through 5 until all replacement characters are complete.
7 Download 3270.XLT to your terminal and restart the terminal emula-
tion program for the changes to take effect. For downloading informa-
tion, see “Downloading Files” on page 251.