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CHAPTER 7 Customizing Localization for Adaptive Server

About the directory

The $SYBASE/locales directory contains a subdirectory for each available language. Each language subdirectory contains a subdirectory for each character set available with that language.

•The .loc files in these subdirectories enable Adaptive Server or Backup Server to report errors in a specific language, encoded in a specific character set.

There are a variety of .loc files in each subdirectory. Most of these files contain translated error messages for a specific product or utility.

•The common.loc file in each subdirectory contains localized information, such as local date, time, and currency formatting, that is used by all products.

•The locales.dat file contains entries that associate platform-specific locale names with Sybase language and character set combinations.

About the charsets directory

The files in $SYBASE/charsets/charset_name contain information related to each particular character set, such as the definition of the character set and any sort orders available for that character set.

About the locales.dat file

You can edit the locales.dat file to:

•Change the default language or character set for a platform, or

•Add new associations between platform locale names and Sybase language and character set names.

Format of locales.dat file entries

Each entry in the locales.dat file links a platform-specific locale definition to a Sybase language and character set combination. Each entry has the following format:

locale = platform_locale, syb_language, syb_charset

where:

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