Putting Mnemonics for DBCS Languages in Resources

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│A mnemonic character is a single-byte character even on DBCS OS/2.    │
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│An alternative mnemonic can be defined only for Japanese.             │
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Even on DBCS OS/2, mnemonic characters are only single-byte characters, not double-byte characters. Alphabetic characters are usually used as mnemonic characters. In addition, Japanese OS/2 allows application programs to define additional mnemonic characters called alternative mnemonics. SBCS Katakana characters are usually assigned to them. Users can dynamically switch mnemonics to alternative mnemonics in0 System Setup.

Note:

• In usual, translators specify the alternative mnemonics in addition to the existing mnemonics. Thus the programmer does not need to know Japanese. The following shows how to set these mnemonics:

    MENUITEM "Open(\036x\037y), MIS_TEXT, ......
  

  In the above definition, "x" is the mnemonic character and "y" is the alternative mnemonic character.

• Alternative mnemonics are unique facility of OS/2 J.