Terms Used in This Guide

You will see the following terms in this guide -

XPG4

X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4
MSE
Multibyte Support Extensions which refer to the contents of "ISO/IEC 9899:1990 Amendment 1:1995(E)"
NLS
National Language Support
SBCS
Single-byte character set
DBCS
Double-byte character set
An SBCS string
A string consists of SBCS characters
A DBCS string
A string consists of DBCS characters
An SBCS/DBCS mixed string
A string consists of both SBCS and DBCS characters
A multibyte string
A short form of an SBCS/DBCS mixed string
A wide string
A short form of an array of wchar_t
DBCS OS/2
Generic term for the Asian OS/2 supporting DBCS
SBCS OS/2
Generic term for the English OS/2, used in contrast to DBCS OS/2
PII
Abbreviation for Program Integrated Information, which refers to all the language-sensitive information exchanged between the user and an application.

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