Appendix C: Localization  How servers handle conversions

Appendix C: Localization

What is localization?

Localization is the process of setting up an application to run in a particular national language environment. A localized application:

A locale name is a character string that represents a language, character set, and sort order combination. For example, the locale name “fr” might represent the following language, character set, and sort order combination:

french/iso_1/binary

Sybase predefines locale names, which are listed in the locales file. For information on the locales file.





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