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Using the LANG Environment Variable

Restriction: National Locale Support is not available for .NET managed code.

You define a locale using the LANG environment variable. LANG is set using the operating system command SET:

set LANG=language

Parameters (Windows)

where the parameters are:

language

The language environment in which you wish to run your program. This determines which message catalog is open so that if an error occurs, the error message is output in the selected language. language can take any of the following values:

1 = American English
2 = Canadian French
3 = Danish
4 = Dutch
5 = English
6 = Finnish
7 = French
8 = German
9 = Italian
10 = Norwegian
11 = Portuguese
12 = Spanish
13 = Swedish

The delimiter for language and territory, if territory is specified.

The following example illustrates how to specify a language of French and use the operating system values for the territory and codepage:

set LANG=7

Parameter (UNIX)

language

en_US = American English
en_GB = English
jp_JP = Japanese (EUC encoding)
jp_JP.sjis = Japanese (Shift-JIS encoding)
jp_JP.utf8 = Japanese (UTF8 encoding)

The following example illustrates how to specify a language of English and use the operating system values for the territory and codepage:

set LANG=en_GB
export LANG