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ALLBASE/SQL Reference Manual

Native Language Support 

ALLBASE/SQL lets you manipulate databases in a wide variety of native
languages in addition to the default language, known as NATIVE-3000.  You
can use either 8-bit or 16-bit character data, as appropriate for the
language you select.  In addition, you can always include ASCII data in
any database, because ASCII is a subset of each supported character set.
The collating sequence for sorting and comparisons is that of the native
language selected.

You can use native language characters in a wide variety of places,
including these:

   *   Character literals
   *   Values stored in host variables for CHAR or VARCHAR data (but not
       as variable names)
   *   ALLBASE/SQL object names

If your system has the proper message files installed, ALLBASE/SQL
displays prompts, messages and banners in the language you select; and it
displays system dates and time according to local customs.  In addition,
ISQL accepts responses to its prompts in the native language selected.
However, regardless of the native language used, the syntax of ISQL and
SQL statements--including punctuation--remains in ASCII. Note that MPE XL
does not support either native language file names or DBEnvironment
names.

In order to use a native language other than the default, you must follow
the steps below: 

   1.  Make sure your I/O devices support the character set you use.

   2.  Set the MPE job control word NLUSERLANG to the number (LangNum) of
       the native language you use.  Use the following MPE XL command:

            SETJCW NLUSERLANG = LangNum 

       This language then becomes the current language.  (If NLUSERLANG
       is not set, the current language is NATIVE-3000.)

   3.  Use the LANG = LanguageName option of the START DBE NEW statement
       to specify the language of a DBEnvironment when you create it.
       Run the MPE XL utility program NLUTIL.PUB.SYS to determine which
       native languages are supported on your system.  Here is a list of
       supported languages, preceded by the LangNum for each:

               0 NATIVE-3000         9 ITALIAN            52 ARABICW
               1 AMERICAN           10 NORWEGIAN          61 GREEK
               2 C-FRENCH           11 PORTUGUESE         71 HEBREW
               3 DANISH             12 SPANISH            81 TURKISH
               4 DUTCH              13 SWEDISH           201 CHINESE-S
               5 ENGLISH            14 ICELANDIC         211 CHINESE-T
               6 FINNISH            41 KATAKANA          221 JAPANESE
               7 FRENCH             51 ARABIC            231 KOREAN
               8 GERMAN

Resetting the LANG variable while you are connected to a DBEnvironment
has no effect on the current DBE session.

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