VMS Help NCS Routines  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The National character set (NCS) utility routines provide a
    common facility for defining and accessing collating sequences
    and conversion functions. Collating sequences are used to compare
    strings for sorting purposes. Conversion functions are used to
    derive an altered form of an input string based on an appropriate
    conversion algorithm.

  Additional Information (explode) :

• NCS$COMPARE
• NCS$CONVERT
• NCS$END_CF
• NCS$END_CS
• NCS$GET_CF
• NCS$GET_CS
• NCS$RESTORE_CF
• NCS$RESTORE_CS
• NCS$SAVE_CF
• NCS$SAVE_CS