Informix 7.25 UC4 German Locales ODBC Driver
A user connecting from Windows 2000 to Informix 7.25 on AIX via the 2.90.TC4 ODBC driver asked how to get "German" support. He set CLIENT_LOCALE de_de.CP1252, DB_LOCALE en_us.CP1252 and a translation DLL, but in Access umlauts (äöüß) appeared as [ ] { } \\ |. A respondent explained GLS only handles formatting and codeset conversion, not word translation, and noted CP1252-to-CP1252 means no conversion at all; he suggested verifying the locales, checking whether dbaccess shows the correct characters (i.e. what is actually stored), and whether the client application can display them. No resolution is recorded in the thread.
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Hello, I use the ODBC Driver 2.90 TC4 (server IBM AIX client Win2000 Box). Everything works fine. But how can I make that the driver translates to German language? Thank you. Akbaba
Hi, You should be setting the required(in this case German) Client and DB locale in the ODBC DSN/Connection string. Thanks & Regards -Shesh "cosmoxx" <akbaba@schubert-tacke.de> Sent by: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org 06/22/2006 06:33 PM To informix-list@iiug.org cc Subject Informix 7.25 UC4 German Locales ODBC Driver Hello, I use the ODBC Driver 2.90 TC4 (server IBM AIX client Win2000 Box). Everything works fine. But how can I make that the driver translates to German language? Thank you. Akbaba _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Hi, I set on the ODBC driver client locale: de_de.CP1252 database locale: en_us.CP1252 Translation library: C:\\Programme\\IBM\\Informix\\Client-SDK\\bin\\igo4n304.dll Translation option: 0 but nothing happens Thanks Akbaba
cosmoxx wrote: > Hi, > > I set on the ODBC driver > client locale: de_de.CP1252 > database locale: en_us.CP1252 > Translation library: > C:\\Programme\\IBM\\Informix\\Client-SDK\\bin\\igo4n304.dll > Translation option: 0 > > but nothing happens > > Thanks > Akbaba Hi, Please let us know what you're expecting to happen and what exactly "nothing happens" means... The GLS feature of Informix doesn't provide any language translating. It is used to define how things are formatted and how to translate from one codeset to another. The first part of the of the GLS locale specifies regional information, for example how Informix presents numbers and what the . (dot) means (is it thousands separator or a decimal separator). The regional information is the "en_us" and "de_de" part of the locales you've specified. The second part of the locale, the part you've specified as CP1252, is the codeset or the character set used to store data. If the client and database utilized different codesets, this part of the locale would be what tells Informix what each letter is -- not what a word means. So, the "Language Support" is really about how to format stuff and what characters mean... it's not going to translate English words into German. Hope this helps you understand GLS a little better...
Hi, I know that the GLS doesn´t translate words. I also know what de_de.CP1252 means. When I connect with Access to the Database I see the characters like [,],{,},\\,| instead of ä,Ä,Ü,ü,ß,ö,Ö. Thanks Akbaba > Hi, > > Please let us know what you're expecting to happen and what exactly > "nothing happens" means... > > The GLS feature of Informix doesn't provide any language translating. > It is used to define how things are formatted and how to translate from > one codeset to another. > > The first part of the of the GLS locale specifies regional information, > for example how Informix presents numbers and what the . (dot) means > (is it thousands separator or a decimal separator). The regional > information is the "en_us" and "de_de" part of the locales you've > specified. > > The second part of the locale, the part you've specified as CP1252, is > the codeset or the character set used to store data. If the client and > database utilized different codesets, this part of the locale would be > what tells Informix what each letter is -- not what a word means. > > So, the "Language Support" is really about how to format stuff and what > characters mean... it's not going to translate English words into > German. > > Hope this helps you understand GLS a little better...
cosmoxx wrote: > Hi, > > I know that the GLS doesn´t translate words. > I also know what de_de.CP1252 means. > When I connect with Access to the Database I see the characters like > [,],{,},\\,| instead of ä,Ä,Ü,ü,ß,ö,Ö. > > Thanks > Akbaba > OK, CLIENT_LOCALE is de_de.CP1252 DB_LOCALE is en_us.CP1252 CP1252 = CP1252 = no translation Since you wouldn't expect any character conversion, I'd then look at the following 3 things: 1) Double check that you're using the correct locales. 2) Check to see that you have the correct characters in the database. Can you select the rows through DBACCESS and get the characters you expect? Can you select the data in any other way and get the characters you expect? 3) Can the software you are using display the characters you are expecting? I wouldn't think this would be a problem with the characters you mention, I typically encounter such problems with Japanese and Chinese characters...