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LINCS Configuration
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• User-Defined 1
• User-Defined 2
If your choice for Secondary Language was Disabled, the Translate Table option for Secondary
Language must be Default.
Use of the Translate Table Utility to create user-defined tables may have an effect on the
functioning of the ASCII Definition Utility and on ASCII character translation. If you plan to
create User-Defined Translate Tables, and your network includes ASCII, refer to Effects on
ASCII for additional information.
Numeric Delimiter
Toggle to select the numeric delimiter to be used in Numeric Lock field. The choices are:
PERIOD or COMMA.
Country Extended Code Page (CECP)
Toggle to Enable or Disable Country Extended Code Page (CECP) support. A code page
contains the graphic characters that support a language. The characters are assigned to code
point positions on a country code page. Different languages use different characters, different
numbers of characters, and different arrangements of code points on their country code page.
Most country code pages contain unallocated code points.
A Country Extended Code Page uses these unallocated code points to provide additional
characters. The unallocated code points are assigned characters from the CECP universal
character set (Character Set 697), which contains 190 characters and a space.
Once CECP is enabled, you can use the Keyboard Definition Utility (KDU) to assign to your
keyboards any character from this universal character set.
The CECP supported languages are marked in the Languages Table with a plus sign.
Unless you plan carefully, use of CECP can have unexpected effects on the data in your
network. You should consider the following before choosing to enable CECP:
• Whether the devices in your network support CECP
• Whether your host’s applications can process CECP data
• Whether filters in host applications could reject or erroneously translate CECP data
• Whether the host is using previously undefined code points from the original country
code page
ASCII considerations
Certain languages (identified in the Languages Table) are available for use with ASCII hosts
and devices. Devices that connect to an ASCII host use the language assigned to that host on
the ASCII Session Profile panel.
The ADU contains Primary and Secondary language translate tables for ASCII devices and
hosts if further definition is necessary.