LOAD-ALPHA

Loads an item generated via DENAT account that contains alternative character sets (Denationalisation).

Command Class

TCL-II command.

Syntax

LOAD-ALPHA file-specifier item-name

Syntax Elements

file-name specifies the file containing the item with alternative alphabetic characters.

item-name is the item defining the alternative character set.

Comments

The item (item-name) defines the following:

• Additional alphabetic characters.
• Upper to lower case translation.
• Printable characters.
• Characters, if any, that are members of primary or secondary non-standard alphabets for the process which does the load.
• Characters that are diacritical marks of printing width zero.

The standard ASCII alphabet consists of characters in the range X'41' to X'5A' and X'61' to X'7A'. Further characters in the range X'81' to X'F7' can be defined as alphabetic. The range X'F8' to X'FF' is reserved for system delimiters.

Characters are taken to be printable if they are in the range X'20' to X'7E', or the range X'80' to X'F7', and are defined as alphabetic.

The English conversions MC0, MC1 and MC2 are added to identify characters from the standard, primary added and secondary added alphabets respectively. MCA now accepts a character from any alphabet as alphabetic. All alphabetic characters are taken as printable.