Conference vaxuum::document_ft

161.0. "MCS support, what will it be?" by HERON::MARSHALL (Chris Marshall N.S.T.C. Valbonne) Fri Mar 27 1987 03:02

    I have seen references to multi-national character set support in
    the documentation and was wondering what exactly this means.  There
    are numerous issues with MCS and how special characters are handled.
    For example in Swedish the characters �, � and � are considered
    to be seperate characters in the alphabet.  For sorting purposes
    they should appear after Z in the order I have listed them.  In
    French the diacriticals are generally ignored when sorting so for
    example Citro�n and Citroen should collate identically.  Another
    problem, if you look at the street index of a map of Barcelona you
    will notice that all the LL are listed in seperately from L just
    as though LL was a seperate letter following L.  Will VAX Document
    support these language specific requirements when building indexes?
    
    Changes in the case of letters is also an issue since in French
    the diacriticals are generally removed where in other languages
    they must be kept or the letters will have changed.  Also how do
    you uppercase �.

We've been working with the internationalization folks on this.  All the issues
 you've brought up (and more) are under consideration.
  <_Jym_>