This Natural profile parameter is relevant for Asian countries which use double-byte character sets (DBCS).
If the profile parameter CP
is set to a
multi-byte code page (MBCS), the logical shift-in and shift-out characters will
be supplied with the code page and therefore SOSI
will
be ignored.
Possible settings | See Positional Subparameters below. | |
---|---|---|
Default setting | none | |
Dynamic specification | yes | |
Specification within session | no |
The following topics are covered below:
The parameter syntax of SOSI
is as
follows:
SOSI=(logical-shift-out,[physical-shift-out],logical-shift-in, [physical-shift-in],[SO/SI-display-length]) |
A shift-out code is used to indicate the point at which the code of character representation is shifted out of normal (single-byte) mode into double-byte mode.
A shift-in code is used to indicate the point at which the code of character representation is shifted from double-byte mode back into normal (single-byte) mode.
The positional subparameters are described below:
Logical shift-out/shift-in characters are converted into the corresponding physical shift-out/shift-in characters before data is transferred to the screen.
Physical shift-out/shift-in characters are converted into the corresponding logical shift-out/shift-in characters before data entered on the screen is transferred to the Natural application.
If code page support is disabled (that is, the profile parameter
CP
is set to
CP=OFF
), the entries for the logical shift-out/shift-in characters
are updated in the translation tables provided by the following macros and
profile parameters:
Table | Macro | Profile Parameter |
---|---|---|
Standard (primary) output translation table | NTTAB |
TAB |
Alternative (secondary) output translation table | NTTAB1 |
TAB1 |
Secondary input translation table used
when the session parameter PM is set to
C .
|
NTTAB2 |
TAB2 |
SYS* output translation table | NTTABL |
TABL |
If the characters into which the logical shift-out/shift-in
characters are to be translated still have their default value (?
= X’6F’
) in the respective translation table at Natural startup
(that is, they have not been modified by one of the macros or profile
parameters mentioned above), they will be updated so that logical
shift-out/shift-in characters will not be not translated for input and
output.
For detailed information on the translation tables, see Translation Tables in the Operations documentation.
The subparameter logical-shift-out corresponds to the profile
parameter SO
and the subparameter logical-shift-in
corresponds to the profile parameter SI
that were
available with previous Natural versions.
Specifying
SOSI=(xx,xx,yy,yy,1)
is equivalent to
specifying
SO=xx,SI=yy
.
For IBM hardware, you should use SOSI=(0E,0E,0F,0F,1)
,
which is equivalent to SOSI=(0E,,0F,,1)
.
For Fujitsu hardware, you should use
SOSI=(28,28,29,29,0)
, which is equivalent to
SOSI=(28,,29,,0)
.
To execute an application that has been created for IBM hardware
(with the parameter setting SOSI=(0E,0E,0F,0F,1)
applied) on
Fujitsu hardware without changing the application, use
SOSI=(0E,4028,0F,2940,1)
.