Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual How client applications use locales.dat

Localization

•platform_locale is the platform-specific keyword for a locale. For acceptable values, see your operating system documentation.

When the locale being defined as the default for the site, platform_locale is “default.”

•syb_language is the name of the language directory to be used from within $SYBASE/locales/language_name.

•syb_charset is the character set name that determines the character set conversion method and identifies the directory location of the message files for clients from within $SYBASE/locales/language_name/charset_name.

For example, the following entry specifies that the default locale uses us_english for the language and iso_1 for the character set:

locale = default, us_english, iso_1

How client applications use locales.dat

Client applications use the locales.dat file to identify the language and character set to use. The connection process follows these steps:

1When a client application starts, it checks the operating system locale setting and then checks the locales.dat file to see if that setting is appropriate for Adaptive Server. For example, a locale entry for French can look like the following:

locale = fr_FR, french, iso_1

2When the client connects to Adaptive Server, the language and character set information is passed to Adaptive Server in the login record.

3Adaptive Server then uses:

•The character set information, for example, iso_1, to identify the client’s character set and verify whether it can convert character data to this character set

•The language (in the preceding example, French) and character set information to see if it has messages in the client’s language

Note Adaptive Server software includes some locale entries already defined in the locales.dat file. If these entries do not meet your needs, you can either modify them or add new locale entries.

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