Handling Locale-Specific Data

Each IBM Informix SQL API product contains a processor to process an ESQL/C source file that has embedded SQL and preprocessor statements. The ESQL/C processor, esql, processes C source files.

The processors for ESQL/C products use operating-system files in the following situations:

• They write language-specific source files (.c) when they process an ESQL/C source file.

  The ESQL/C processors use the client code set (that the client locale specifies) to generate the filenames for these language-specific files.

• They read ESQL/C source files (.ec) that the user creates.

  The ESQL/C processors use the client code set to interpret the contents of these ESQL/C source files.

Use the CLIENT_LOCALE environment variable to specify the client locale.