LANGUAGE

The LANGUAGE option controls the initialization of locales. A locale includes the language and the date, time, and number formats to be used for the console and server.

If your client and server are running different languages, the messages that are generated might not be understandable when messages are issued from the client to the server or if the server sends output to the client.

AIX operating systemsHP-UX operating systemsLinux operating systemsSun Solaris operating systemsIf initialization of the locale fails, the server defaults to American English.

Windows operating systemsIf the initialization of the locale fails, the server defaults to American English and uses the date, time, and number formats that are set by the DATEFORMAT, TIMEFORMAT, and NUMBERFORMAT server options.

Syntax

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                     (1)      
>>-LANGuage--+-AMENG------+------------------------------------><
             |       (2)  |   
             +-en_US------+   
             |        (3) |   
             '-locale-----'   

Notes:
  1. AMENG is available only on HP-UX, Solaris, Windows.
  2. en_US is available only on AIX and Linux.
  3. locale is available only on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.

Parameters

HP-UX operating systemsSun Solaris operating systemsWindows operating systemsAMENG
HP-UX operating systemsSun Solaris operating systemsWindows operating systemsSpecifies that American English is used as the default language for the server.
AIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsen_US
AIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsSpecifies that American English is used as the default language for the server.
locale
Specifies the name of the locale that is supported by the server. See the following tables for information on supported locales by operating system.
Note: Tivoli® Storage Manager runs in any locale, but defaults to American English. For the locales listed, language support is available. Refer to the Installation Guide for information on installing language support.
AIX operating systems
Table 1. Server languages for AIX®
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh_CN
Chinese, Simplified Zh_CN
Chinese, Simplified (UTF-8) ZH_CN
Chinese, Traditional (Big5) Zh_TW
Chinese, Traditional (UTF-8) ZH_TW
Chinese, Traditional (euc_tw) zh_TW
English en_US
English (UTF-8) EN_US
French fr_FR
French (UTF-8) FR_FR
German de_DE
German (UTF-8) DE_DE
Italian it_IT
Italian (UTF-8) IT_IT
Japanese, EUC ja_JP
Japanese, PC Ja_JP
Japanese, UTF8 JA_JP
Korean ko_KR
Korean (UTF-8) KO_KR
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_BR
Portuguese, Brazilian (UTF-8) PT_BR
Russian ru_RU
Russian (UTF-8) RU_RU
Spanish es_ES
Spanish (UTF-8) ES_ES
Table note: The system must have en_US environment support installed.
HP-UX operating systems
Table 2. Server languages for HP-UX
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh_CN.hp15CN
zh_CN.utf8
Chinese, Traditional zh_TW.big5
zh_TW.eucTW
zh_TW.utf8
English en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
French fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.utf8
German de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.utf8
Italian it_IT.iso88591
it_IT.utf8
Japanese ja_JP.eucJP
ja_JP.utf8
Korean ko_KR.eucKR
ko_KR.utf8
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_PT.iso88591
pt_PT.utf8
Russian ru_RU.iso88595
ru_RU.utf8
Spanish es_ES.iso88591
es_ES.utf8
Linux operating systems
Table 3. Server languages for Linux
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.utf8
Chinese, Traditional Big5 / Zh_TW
zh_TW
zh_TW.utf8
English, United States en_US
en_US.utf8
French fr_FR
fr_FR.utf8
German de_DE
de_DE.utf8
Italian it_IT
it_IT.utf8
Japanese ja_JP
ja_JP.utf8
Korean ko_KR
ko_KR.utf8
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_BR
pt_BR.utf8
Russian ru_RU
ru_RU.utf8
Spanish es_ES
es_ES.utf8
Sun Solaris operating systems
Table 4. Server languages for Solaris
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh
zh_CN.UTF-8
Chinese, Traditional zh_TW
zh_TW.BIG5
zh_TW.UTF-8
English AMENG
en_US.UTF-8
French fr_FR.ISO8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8
German de_DE.ISO8859-1
de_DE.UTF-8
Italian it_IT.ISO8859-1
it_IT.UTF-8
Japanese ja
ja_JP.UTF-8
Korean ko
ko_KR.UTF-8
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_BR.ISO8859-1
pt_BR.UTF-8
Russian ru_RU.ISO8859-5
ru_RU.UTF-8
Spanish es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.UTF-8
Windows operating systems
Table 5. Server languages for Windows
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified chs
Chinese, Traditional cht
English ameng
French fra
German deu
Italian ita
Japanese jpn
Korean kor
Portuguese, Brazilian ptb
Russian rus
Spanish esp

Examples

AIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsSun Solaris operating systems
lang ja_JP
HP-UX operating systems
lang ja_JP.eucJP
Windows operating systems
lang jpn