ALLBASE/SQL lets you manipulate databases in a wide variety of
native languages in addition to the default language, known as
n-computer. 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. A list of supported languages is in
/usr/lib/nls/config.
You can use native language characters in the various ways listed here:
As host variables for CHAR or VARCHAR data (but not variable names).
In ALLBASE/SQL object names.
In WHERE and VALUES clauses.
If your system has the proper message files installed,
ALLBASE/SQL displays prompts, messages, and banners in the
language you select. It also displays dates and time according
to local customs. In addition, you can respond to ISQL prompts
in the native language selected. However, regardless of the
native language used, the syntax of ISQL and SQL
commands--including punctuation--remains in ASCII.
In order to use a native language other than the default, you
must do the following:
Make sure your I/O devices support the character set you wish to use.
Set the HP-UX environment variable LANG to the native language
(LanguageName) you wish to use. For the C shell, use the
following command:
For the K shell, use the following command (no spaces
before or after the equal sign):
typeset -x LANG=LanguageName
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For the Bourne shell, use the following commands:
LANG = LanguageName
export LANG
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This language then becomes the current language. which
determines those message and welcome files used when you invoke
ISQL. If LANG is not set, the current language is n-computer.
Use the LANG=LanguageName option of the START DBE NEW command
to specify the language when you create a DBEnvironment.
You can use native language characters in the DBEnvironment
name. If you do so, you must set the LANG environment variable
to the same language before you can connect to the
DBEnvironment. To avoid confusion, you are advised to always
use the same language for the DBEnvironment that you use in the
LANG variable.
Resetting the LANG variable while you are connected to a
DBEnvironment has no effect on the current DBE session.
ISQL interacts with two files that contain messages which may vary
according to the language selected:
hpsqlcat is the ALLBASE/SQL message catalog. This file contains
ISQL and other ALLBASE/SQL messages. The full pathname
for this file is
/usr/lib/nls/n-computer/hpsqlcat
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If you are using native language data, the pathname is
/usr/lib/nls/$LANG/hpsqlcat, where $LANG
is the user's current language specified in the setenv command.
If this file is not available, then the default file,
/usr/lib/nls/n-computer/hpsqlcat, is used.
isqlwel is a file containing the ISQL prompt,
sign-on banner, and messages to be displayed
when you invoke ISQL. The full pathname for this file is:
/usr/lib/nls/n-computer/isqlwel
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If you are using native language data, the
path name for this file is /usr/lib/nls/$LANG/isqlwel, where
$LANG is the user's current language specified in the setenv
command. If this file is not available, then the default
file /usr/lib/nls/n-computer/isqlwel is used.
