HP 9000 User Manual page 220

message catalog system
A set of tools developed by Hewlett-Packard to extract print statements
from C programs and place them in, or retrieve them from, the message
catalog.
mode
The order in which text is displayed: Latin (left-to-right), or non-Latin
(right-to-left ).
multi-bye character
See character.
n-computer (native-computer)
An invented, artificial computer locale which specifies the minimal
environment. Now replaced by the
C
locale.
non-Latin mode
The mode where the terminal is configured so that the text display order is
from right to left.
opposite language
When the terminal is in non-Latin mode, Latin characters are the "opposit~lossary
language" and when the terminal is in Latin, non-Latin characters are the
"opposite language". NLS allows both Latin and non-Latin characters to
appear on the same line. Opposite language characters are inserted on the
screen in the opposite direction by using an opposite language key.
order
The temporal order in which data is used: screen order (the order in which
characters are displayed) or keyboard order (the order in which the user
enters keystrokes).
path name
A sequence of directory names separated by slashes (/), and ending in any
type of file name.
phonetic order
The ordering of characters by the way they are read or spoken.
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