Client
applications use the locales.dat file to identify
the language and character set to use.
When a client application starts, it checks the operating
system locale setting and the locales.dat file to see if the setting is appropriate for
SAP ASE. For example, a locale entry for French looks like:
locale = fr_FR, french, iso_1
When the client connects to SAP ASE, the language and
character set information is passed to SAP ASE in the login record.
SAP ASE then uses:
The character set information, for example,
iso_1, to identify the client’s character set and verify whether
it can convert character data to this character set
The language (in the preceding example, French)
and character set information to see if it has messages in the
client’s language
Note: SAP ASE software includes some locale entries already defined in the locales.dat file. If these entries do not meet your
needs, you can either modify them or add new locale entries.