Euro Currency Support - IBM i series Handbook

perform to provide local cultural values. This support can be used whether an National
Language Version (primary or secondary) is installed for that language on the iSeries.
Bidirectional Language Support
Bidirectional Language Support (BIDI) is a series of routines to transform the physical order
of characters to a logical order. Culturally correct BiDi language support requires that the flow
of text, left to right or right to left, be determined by the character entered or displayed at the
workstation or printer device. However, the data must be stored in DB2 UDB for iSeries (or
any file system) in the sequence the characters are entered, and not how they are displayed.

Euro Currency Support

OS/400 V4R5 includes Phase II of euro currency sign support. Phase I of euro currency sign
support was included in V4R4 and previous releases. Phase I is for countries that use a Latin
1-based alphabet, which primarily included the countries in the European Monetary Union
(EMU). Phase II is for those countries currently supported in the iSeries national language
structure who are outside the EMU and whose national standards bodies have approved the
appropriate standards. Examples are Japan, Poland, and Turkey.
IBM considers an IBM product to be Euro Ready if the product, when used in accordance with
its associated documentation, is capable of correctly processing monetary data in the Euro
denomination and of respecting the euro currency formatting conventions (including the euro
sign). This assumes all other products (for example: hardware, software, firmware, etc.) with
the IBM product are also Euro Ready.
IBM considers a solution to be Euro Ready when the solution providers have analyzed the
euro requirements, including the need to comply with relevant EC rules, and built-in
appropriate function accordingly.
OS/400 can input, display, print, and process the euro currency sign for both the host and PC
client computing environments. This support includes, but is not limited to:
• Operating system and LPP changes that are transparent to the user.
• Euro country extended code pages (CECPs) and CCSIDs.
• Euro keyboard types, including device configuration and device controller changes.
• Euro font and glyph support.
All current IBM iSeries printers and many withdrawn IBM iSeries printers have been
enhanced to support the euro currency symbol. Updates to external display, print, and client
functions may need to be obtained from other vendors to support Euro currency.
As part of continuing globalization enhancements to facilitate data interchange with other
industry-standard operating systems and link to current technologies like XML and LDAP, the
QlgTransformUCSData API is added to convert data from the Unicode encoding form UCS-2
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