Linguistic and cultural values

Linguistic and cultural conventions include any system values, attributes, or settings that can be altered to suit a country or language.

Examples of linguistic and cultural conventions on the system include date formats and currency symbols.

Some linguistic and cultural conventions might vary by language within a country. For example, language conventions vary in Canada. One set of linguistic conventions apply for French and another set of linguistic conventions apply for English.

Where you can change linguistic and cultural values on IBM i

Settings of cultural and linguistic conventions are supported at different levels in the IBM i operating system.

The system is structured in the following way:

Table 1. System with subsystem A and subsystem B
System
Subsystem A	Subsystem B
Job A1 Job A2	Job B1 Job B2

Some linguistic and cultural conventions can be set or changed at the system level, some at the subsystem level, some at the user profile level, and some at job run time. In addition, some cultural and linguistic settings can be set or changed in device descriptions. For example, keyboard types can be changed when creating or changing a display device description.