Any installation of Adaptive Server can use Language Modules containing files of messages in different languages. Adaptive Server provides Language Modules for messages in the following languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. If your client language is not one of these languages, you see system messages in English, the default language.
Each client can choose to view messages in their own language at the same time, from the same server; for example, one client views system messages in French, another in Spanish, and another in German. To do this, however, all selected languages must be part of the same language group. For example, French, Spanish and German are all part of language group 1. Japanese, on the other hand, is part of language group 101, which contains no other languages. Therefore, if Japanese is your server language, you can display system messages only in Japanese or English. Remember that all language groups can display messages in English. There is also a server-wide default language, used if the user has not selected a specific language. If you use Unicode, you can view system messages in any of the supported languages.
You can select the language for your system messages in one of two ways:
Select a language as part of your user profile.
Enter a language in the locales.dat file.
The following table displays the supported system message languages and their language groups. Each user can select only one language for system messages per session.
Language group |
System message languages |
Character sets |
|---|---|---|
Group 1 |
French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese |
ASCII 8, CP 437, CP 850, CP 860, CP 863, CP 1252, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Macintosh Roman, ROMAN8 |
Group 101 |
Japanese |
CP 932, DEC Kanji, EUC-JIS, Shift-JIS |
Group 102 |
Simplified Chinese (PRC) |
CP 936, EUC-GB |
Group 104 |
Korean |
EUC-KSC |
Unicode |
French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean |
UTF-8 |
All Other Language Groups |
English |
You need to install language modules for all languages in which clients will receive messages. These language modules, located in the locales subdirectory of the Adaptive Server installation directory, are part of a group of files called localization files. For information about localization files and the software message directory structure, refer to “Types of localization files”.
