Understanding the locale language

The locale language is the language being used by the user of the client application, or expected to be used by users of the database server. For more information about how to find locale settings, see Determining locale information.

The client library, and the database server, both determine the language component of the locale in the same manner:

Use the value of the SALANG environment variable, if it exists. See SALANG environment variable.
For Windows, if the SALANG environment variable doesn't exist, check the SQL Anywhere language registry entry. See Registry settings on installation.
Check the operating system language setting.
If the language still cannot be determined by the above settings, default to English.

Language label values

The following table displays the valid language label values, together with the equivalent ISO 639 language codes:

Language	ISO 639-1 language code	Language label	Alternative label
Arabic	AR	arabic	N/A
Czech	CS	czech	N/A
Danish	DA	danish	N/A
Dutch	NL	dutch	N/A
English	EN	us_english	english
Finnish	FI	finnish	N/A
French	FR	french	N/A
German	DE	german	N/A
Greek	EL	greek	N/A
Hebrew	HE	hebrew	N/A
Hungarian	HU	hungarian	N/A
Italian	IT	italian	N/A
Japanese	JA	japanese	N/A
Korean	KO	korean	N/A
Lithuanian	LT	lithuanian	N/A
Norwegian	NO	norwegian	norweg
Polish	PL	polish	N/A
Portuguese	PT	portuguese	portugue
Russian	RU	russian	N/A
Simplified Chinese	ZH	chinese	simpchin
Spanish	ES	spanish	N/A
Swedish	SV	swedish	N/A
Thai	TH	thai	N/A
Traditional Chinese	TW	tchinese	tradchin
Turkish	TR	turkish	N/A
Ukrainian	UK	ukrainian	N/A

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