What's new for V6R1

Read about new or significantly changed information for the IBM® i globalization topic collection.

  1. With V6R1, IBM i support for the International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries has been updated to be based on ICU version 3.4. This includes the support for the IUC-based sort support. For more information, see ICU-based sort support.
  2. With V6R1, the system service language can now be a different language from the operating system language. For more information, see Installation preparation and national languages.

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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to users.