SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph.

The SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph provides a means for:

• specifying currency signs and symbols
• choosing the decimal point
• specifying symbolic-characters
• relating system-names to user-specified mnemonic-names
• relating alphabet-names to character sets or collating sequences or both
• relating class-names to a set of characters
• relating a data item to the cursor position of a character addressable terminal
• relating a data item to the status of a terminal input-output operation

Format.

          SPECIAL-NAMES.

        [ switch-name-clause  ]
        [ feature-name-clause ] ...
        [ device-name-clause  ]

        [ alphabet-name-clause ] ...

        [ symbolic-characters-clause ] ...

        [ CLASS class-name [ IS ]
                { literal-4 [ { THROUGH } literal-5 ] } ... } ...
                              { THRU    }

        [ CURRENCY-SIGN [ IS ] literal-6 ]

        [ DECIMAL-POINT [ IS ] COMMA ]

        [ NUMERIC SIGN [IS] { LEADING  } [ SEPARATE [ CHARACTER ] ] ]
                            { TRAILING }

        [ CURSOR [ IS ] data-name-1 ]

        [ CRT STATUS [ IS ] data-name-2 ] .

Notes.

data-name-1 must be a data record of USAGE DISPLAY, with 4 or 6 numeric digits.

data-name-2 must be a numeric data item with USAGE DISPLAY and 4 digits.