Problem:
By default, RM/COBOL will only allow inputting 7-bit ASCII characters into a terminal ACCEPT field. However, international characters, such as accented vowels, are only available in the 8-bit character encoding space.
Resolution:
In order to allow the inputting of 8-bit(extended international) characters in an RM/COBOL application, you will need to place the following configuration record into an RM/COBOL configuration file:
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TERM-ATTR DATA-CHARACTERS=32,255
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**You can load an RM/COBOL configuration file using the C, or X, Runtime command line options, or, by naming the configuration file, "runcobol.cfg", and placing it in the same directory as the RM/COBOL Runtime executable(runcobol).
For more information about RM/COBOL configuration files and the DATA-CHARACTERS configuration record, please see Chapter 10 of the RM/COBOL User's Guide:
https://supportline.microfocus.com/Documentation/books/Relativity/v12/RMC-UG.pdf
