rs_init configures Replication Server to print messages in U.S. English by default.
Other available languages are Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. rs_init uses the same identifiers for language names as Adaptive Server. You can select any language when you install Replication Server as long as the language is compatible with the character set you install.
If the language for the Replication Server and the language for its connected data servers are different, the language for the Replication Server must be installed at the data servers. This lets the data servers return messages to Replication Server in the configured language and recognize and format dates for the configured language.
For example, the date format “01/02/99” is equivalent to “January 2, 1999” in us_english but “February 1, 1999” in french. Data servers can format the date correctly only if the Replication Server configured language is installed.