Re: trying to use nls

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:40:30 +0300, Mati Link <mati@www.tallinn.ee> wrote: >hi >i have a problem with natlive language support. > >i need to input some special characters. so i set dbnls variable to 1 or >2 and >i encouter errors when trying to set the lang variable. i would like to >use estonian >language which is supported by my os(NT4.0). >seems that i don't know the right codebase. >do i have to have estonia specific file in informix/gls/lc11 folder? >where to get extra code sets/bases for informix? > >Mati Link >www.tallinn.ee You seem to have some old version as you talk about NLS, not GLS. Get the new free version of Informix IDS 7.3 from Informix. Then you can use GLS instead of NLS and you will have many other advantages as well. To support estonian you will have to have a directory under your INFORMIXDIR with the right GLS support file for that language. If that doesn't come with the product you will have to either find another language that also have the same character properly supported or talk to Informix about having the appropriate files generated. To use GLS you essentially set the DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE environement variables (on NT I would assume they are in the registry) before you create the database. You also have to set these variables on each machine that is to access this database. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)