Localization Directories

SAP localization configuration involves the locales and charsets directories.

• About the locales Directory
  The $SYBASE/locales directory contains a subdirectory for each available language. Each language subdirectory contains a subdirectory for each available character set for that language.
• About the charsets Directory
  The files in $SYBASE/charsets/charset_name contain information related to each particular character set, such as the definition of any available sort order.
• 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.
• How Client Applications Use locales.dat
  Client applications use the locales.dat file to identify the language and character set to use.