Informix Guide to GLS Functionality Managing GLS Files

An Informix product contains the following GLS files:

• Locale files: source (*.lc) and object (*.lco)
• Code-set-conversion files: source (*.cv) and object (*.cvo)
• Code-set files: source only (*.cm)

To save disk space, you might want to keep only those files that you intend to use. This section describes which of these files you can safely remove from your Informix installation.

You can safely remove the following GLS files from your Informix installation:

• For those locales that you do not intend to use, you can remove locale source and object files (.lc and .lco) from the subdirectories of the lcX subdirectory in your Informix installation.

For more information on the lcX pathname, see Locale-File Subdirectories.

• For those code-set conversions that you do not intend to use, you can remove code-set-conversion source and object files (.cv and .cvo) from the subdirectories of the cvY subdirectory in your Informix installation.

For more information on the cvY pathname, see Code-Set-Conversion Filenames.

Warning: Do not remove the locale object file for the U.S. 8859-1 English locale, 0333.lco in the en_us locale-file subdirectory. In addition, do not remove the Informix Code-Set Name-Mapping file, registry. Informix products use these files for the language processing of all locales.

Because Informix products do not access source versions of locale and code-set conversion files, you can safely remove them. However, these files do provide useful on-line documentation for the supported locales and code-set conversions. If you have enough disk space, Informix recommends that you keep these source files for the GLS locales (*.lc) and code-set conversions (*.cv) that your Informix installation supports.

Informix provides the source version of code-set files (.cm) as on-line documentation for the locales and code-set conversions that use them. Because Informix products do not access source code-set files, you can safely remove them. However, if you have enough disk space, Informix recommends that you keep these source files for the GLS locales and code-set conversions that your Informix installation supports.