Localization Support

Localization is setting up an application to run in a particular language or country environment, including translated system messages and correct formats for date, time, and currency. SAP ASE supports localization for international customers and for customers with heterogeneous environments.

• Language Modules
  SAP ASE stores its localized software messages in separate language modules.
• Default Character Sets for Servers
  The default character set is the character set in which data is encoded and stored on the SAP ASE databases.
• Supported Character Sets
  SAP ASE supports many languages, scripts and character sets.
• Character Set Conversion
  Backup Server passes messages to SAP ASE in the client’s language and in the SAP ASE character set. SAP ASE converts the messages and issues them in the client’s language and character set.
• Sort Orders
  Each character set comes with one or more sort orders (collating sequences), which are located in the sort-order definition files (.srt files). These files accompany the character set definition files and can be found in the same directory.
• Language Modules
  If you want SAP ASE error messages to display in a language other than U.S. English (us_english), you must install the appropriate language module.
• Localization
  By default, the SAP ASE and Backup Server configurations use the English locale settings.
• Changing SAP ASE and Backup Server Localization Configuration
  By default, the SAP ASE and Backup Server configurations use the English locale settings localization.
• Language-Specific Sort Orders
  Available sort orders.
• SAP ASE Character Set Names
  Supported character sets and their SAP ASE name.
• charset Utility
  Use the charset utility to load character sets and sort orders into SAP ASE during installation.