Client
applications use the locales.dat file to identify
the language and character set.
The connection process follows
these steps:
When a client application starts, it checks the operating system locale setting
and the locales.date file to see if the
setting is appropriate for SAP ASE. For example, a locale entry for French
may look 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 comes with 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.