Re: foreign language support?

In Informix it's called NLS - national language support. And I believe you have to set up your locale settings on the server and your client environments. I'd think this is pretty standard in most commercial strength databases. Informix also offers GLS, or global language support, to deal with different locales. Yours, Nick at 09:07 AM 5/11/99 -0400, Blair Kenneth Adamache wrote: >DB2 supports foreign languages in two ways: >1. error messages, online manuals and documentation are translated >2. with any national language version of the database installed (i.e. DB2 >installed in English) you can support other national languages by creating >databases in the codesets required for that language, assuming the operating >system has the correct codepage (OS/2, Windows, NT) or locale (Unix) support. > >Languages supported by DB2 Universal Database are discussed in Appendix O of the >Administration Guide. > >You can view this manual by selecting DB2 Publications >at this site: > >http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/library/ > >Paul Morrison wrote: > >> Is there such a concept of a RDBMS in a Foreign language, or is it a single >> product with Error messages in the foreign language? >> >> I have been asked to track down German, French and Japanese versions of DB2, >> Sybase, Informix, and Oracle for testing, and want to make sure I understand >> what exactly this entails. >> >> TIA! >> >> paul >> pmorriso@peregrine.com > > > > ********************* Nick Nobbe NLS/BPH Library of Congress NNob@loc.gov (202) 707-0548