Format of locales.dat File Entries

You can edit the locales.dat file to change the default language or character set for a platform, or to add new associations between platform locale names and SAP language and character set names.

Each entry in the locales.dat file links a platform-specific locale definition to a SAP language and character set combination. Each entry has this format:

locale = platform_locale, syb_language, syb_charset

where:

platform_locale is the platform-specific keyword for a locale. For acceptable values, see your operating system documentation.

When the locale being defined as the default for the site, platform_locale is “default.”
syb_language is the name of the language directory to be used from within $SYBASE/locales/language_name.
syb_charset is the character set that determines the character set conversion method and identifies the directory location of the message files for clients from within $SYBASE/locales/language_name/charset_name.

For example, this entry specifies that the default locale uses us_english for the language and iso_1 for the character set:

locale = default, us_english, iso_1