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Mid-range and Large PLCs
News Release from: SoftPLC Corp | Subject: Topdoc
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2003
International support gives PLCs global
scope
SoftPLC's software ladder logic editing and documentation program is engineered to support all international character sets to simplify operation in various countries.
SoftPLC's software ladder logic editing and documentation program is engineered to support all international character sets to simplify operation in various countries The program, Topdoc, is used by SoftPLC's open- architecture PLC system and supports 16bit character sets; any character set can be supported, including (but not limited to) Arabic, Chinese and Russian
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Thus, users throughout the world can view, edit, and print PLC logic using their native language.
Manufacturers and machine builders who supply products for export or operate in non-English-speaking areas can provide a system easily maintainable by local workers, and the complete PLC program development and maintenance environment can be localised.
Topdoc character support is comprehensive, including both application user interface strings (such as program menu options and prompts) and application datafiles (descriptors, rung comments and string data table values).
Most other PLC editing products support only 8bit ASCII characters for application datafiles, and while some vendors produce specialised international versions of their programs, these versions are under control of the vendors and typically only permit use with standard-alphabet character sets (such as German, Portuguese and Italian).
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