Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2783

Changing the Language NetWare Uses
Code Pages
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Server Operating System Administration Guide
The default language for NetWare is English, but other languages are
available. To change the language of your NetWare server and its NLM
programs, see the following sections:
"Code Pages" on page 26
"Changing Code Pages" on page 29
"Changing Server Message Files" on page 30
"Changing NLM Message Files" on page 31
"Changing the Server Keyboard Type" on page 32
A code page is a table storing a character set that supports one or more
language scripts. When you press any key on a keyboard, the computer
receives a numeric code that represents that keystroke. Code pages store these
numeric codes. Many personal computer operating systems support multiple
code pages and allow you to switch among them.
For example, DOS uses code page 437 for several languages that use Roman
alphabetical characters, including English, French, and German, but requires
code page 850 for Portuguese. DOS code page 850 (Portuguese) removes the
symbol for f (franc) and inserts an O (acute). Different computer operating
systems use different code pages for the same language. For example, DOS
uses code page 437 for English, but Windows* 95 uses code page 1252.
In a single-byte code page, up to 256 codes are available to represent lower-
and uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and all the mathematical
symbols on your keyboard.
However, 256 codes are not sufficient to represent all the letters and characters
used in the writing systems of every language. Some nonalphabetic writing
systems, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, contain thousands of
characters and require a double-byte code page.
Differences between single-byte and double-byte code pages usually cause
display and readability problems. For example, a document created with
Windows 95 in Japan is probably created with code page 932. The same
document will not look the same when displayed on a Windows 95 computer
using code page 1252 in the United States. Unrecognized characters will be