IBM GC09-2830-00 manual Appendix E. National Language Support NLS, Code Page and Language Support

Appendix E. National Language Support (NLS)

This section contains information about con®guring national language support for the DB2 Connect product, and includes information on:

vWhich languages are supported by DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition and DB2 Connect Personal Edition.

vHow DB2 Connect handles the conversion of data between unalike systems.

vHow to customize your DB2 Connect workstation for your particular national language environment.

vHow to customize your host Coded Character Set Identi®er (CCSID) setting.

Code Page and Language Support

During installation of DB2, the country, codepage, and regional settings are established. However, you can change these settings after installing DB2: including regional settings such as code page, country language (for monetary, date, and numeric formatting), and time zone. When a new connection to a database is made, the database manager uses these new values.

You must ensure that your regional settings are set correctly. DB2 may not produce the expected results if the country, code page, or regional settings are incorrect for the intended language.

Table 8 shows the languages into which the DB2 messages are translated.

Note: The code page values in the table that follows are also used as

directory names on DB2 CD-ROMs. For example, a reference to

x:\language\win32\install would be x:\en\win32\install for English. For more detailed information on the languages and code pages support, refer to the Administration Guide.

Table 8. Languages and Code Pages

Country Code	Language
bg	Bulgarian
br	Brazilian Portuguese
cn	Simpli®ed Chinese (PRC)
cz	Czech
de	German
dk	Danish

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