International Language Supplement

IBM® Informix® products include a core set of GLS locale files, including the default locale and most locales to support English, Western European, Eastern European, Asian, and African territories.

If you do not find a locale to support your language and territory, you can get additional locales in the International Language Supplement (ILS) product, which provides all available GLS locales and code-set conversion files. It also includes error messages to support several languages.

International Language Supplement lets you localize time, date, number and currency formats, character sets, and sorting orders. All of the provided locales work with IBM Informix GLS-enabled products. After following the installation instructions, set the DBLANG environment variable. Each user who wants to use a localized user interface file must set the environment variable DBLANG to point to the appropriate language msg directory.

Set DBLANG replacing <codeset-hex> with the appropriate code set that your system uses:

C-shell: setenv DBLANG msg/<lang>_<territory>/<codeset-hex>
Bourne-shell: DBLANG=msg/<lang>_<territory>/<codeset-hex> export DBLANG

To unset the DBLANG variable, enter the following command:

C-shell: unsetenv DBLANG
Bourne-shell: unset DBLANG

For more information about how to create customized message files, see Locate message files.