Select a Language for System Messages

Any installation of SAP ASE can use Language Modules, which contains files of messages in different languages.

SAP ASE 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.

This table displays the supported system message languages and their language groups. Each user can select only one language per session for system messages:

Install Language Modules for all languages in which clients will receive messages. These Language Modules, located in the locales subdirectory of the SAP ASE installation directory, are part of a group of files called localization files.