Localization refers to the linguistic and cultural adaptation of a product to a target locale, which is usually a combination of language and country/region. Localization affects many components, including packaging, installation, documentation, software user interface, and error/warning/information messages.

SQL Anywhere software is localized to five languages:

• English
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese

Language choice is determined at installation.

Localized versions of the documentation are available in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

On Windows, Start menu items allow the software to be reconfigured between the installed language and English. The Language Selection utility (dblang) allows the software to be reconfigured to any of the available languages, including the additional deployment languages. See:

• Deployment software localization on Windows
• Language Selection utility (dblang)
• Changing administration tool language settings

The following table shows the availability of each language by operating system platform.