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• About this book
  • Other information to help you
  • Terms used in this guide
  • Notation used in this guide
• Overview
  • Where do you need to support DBCS?
  • What is the IBM DBCS OS/2?
    • Differences between SBCS OS/2 and DBCS OS/2
    • Variation of DBCS OS/2
  • Setting up an environment for DBCS support
    • OS/2 Programming Tools V2.1 and its utilities
      • Dialog Editor
      • Resource Complier
      • IPFC (Information Presentation Facility Compiler)
    • IBM C/C++ Tool V2.x
      • C Compiler
      • C Runtime Library
      • PM Debugger
      • Other utilities
• How to make your Application DBCS-Enabled?
  • Recognizing DBCS OS/2 from your program
    • Determining DBCS Environment Vector
    • Determining runtime code page and country code
  • Preparing for DBCS input
    • Adding a status line to a window
    • Allowing a user to perform on-the-spot conversion
    • Processing DBCS input from a keyboard
  • Processing DBCS strings
    • Handling two bytes as a double-byte character
  • Preparing for DBCS output
    • Finding available fonts on DBCS OS/2
    • Calculating the window coordinate
    • Using Font Dialog control
    • Preparing a table for PS/55 DBCS printers
  • Preparing MRI (Machine Readable Information)
    • Isolating MRI
    • Determining a national language for MRI
    • Fitting your dialog windows into PM screen
    • Putting mnemonics for DBCS languages in your resources
    • Using common graphical characters in the country/language
  • Setting up country-unique formats for output
  • Preparing help text
  • Preparing icons
  • Exchanging data with Host software
    • Converting ASCII DBCS to EBCDIC DBCS
      • TrnsDt
      • WinCpTranslateString
    • Using EHLLAPI
• Supported code pages on OS/2 V2.1