The Global Language Support (GLS) feature lets the database server handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets using different locales. A GLS locale is an environment that has defined conventions for a particular language or culture. See Assumptions About Your Locale of the Introduction.
With GLS support, the database server does not need to specify how to process culture-specific information directly because this information resides in a GLS locale. When the database server needs culture-specific information, it makes a call to the GLS library. The GLS library, in turn, accesses the GLS locale and returns the information to the IBM Informix product.
For more information about the GLS feature, see the IBM Informix GLS User's Guide.
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