Introduction
This book is written by DBCS Technical Coordination Office, Yamato Lab, IBM Japan. DTCO is located in the suburbs of Tokyo and provides DBCS technical guidance and assistance to IBM worldwide development groups. This book was primarily written for IBM development groups but will be very helpful to anyone outside IBM that want to make their programs enabled for DBCS.
If you have any comments, please send them to DTCO.
Laws, business customs and so on vary from country to country. Also, what kind of country-specific knowledge is required depends on the type of application products. Such application-specific NLS information and guidance are beyond the scope of this book.
This manual provides information and guidelines that are important and sufficient for the vast majority of international products: Not to provide all DBCS OS/2 details.
This manual is written for DBCS OS/2 Version 2.1 applications. Many enhanced functions in version 2.1 are only available in this version, but the DBCS consideration in this book can be applied to all versions of DBCS OS/2.