LANGUAGE

The LANGUAGE option controls the initialization of locales. A locale includes the language and the date, time, and number formats to be used for the console and server.

If your client and server are running different languages, the messages that are generated might not be understandable when messages are issued from the client to the server or if the server sends output to the client.

Linux operating systemsAIX operating systemsIf initialization of the locale fails, the server defaults to American English.

Windows operating systemsIf the initialization of the locale fails, the server defaults to American English and uses the date, time, and number formats that are set by the DATEFORMAT, TIMEFORMAT, and NUMBERFORMAT server options.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramLANGuageAMENG1en_US2locale3
Notes:
  • 1 AMENG is available only on HP-UX, Solaris, Windows.
  • 2 en_US is available only on AIX and Linux.
  • 3 locale is available only on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.

Parameters

Windows operating systemsAMENG
Windows operating systemsSpecifies that American English is used as the default language for the server.
Linux operating systemsAIX operating systemsen_US
Linux operating systemsAIX operating systemsSpecifies that American English is used as the default language for the server.
locale
Specifies the name of the locale that is supported by the server. See the following tables for information on supported locales by operating system.
Note: IBM Spectrum Protect runs in any locale, but defaults to American English. For the locales listed, language support is available.
AIX operating systems
Table 1. Server languages for AIX®
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh_CN
Chinese, Simplified Zh_CN
Chinese, Simplified (UTF-8) ZH_CN
Chinese, Traditional (Big5) Zh_TW
Chinese, Traditional (UTF-8) ZH_TW
Chinese, Traditional (euc_tw) zh_TW
English en_US
English (UTF-8) EN_US
French fr_FR
French (UTF-8) FR_FR
German de_DE
German (UTF-8) DE_DE
Italian it_IT
Italian (UTF-8) IT_IT
Japanese, EUC ja_JP
Japanese, PC Ja_JP
Japanese, UTF8 JA_JP
Korean ko_KR
Korean (UTF-8) KO_KR
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_BR
Portuguese, Brazilian (UTF-8) PT_BR
Russian ru_RU
Russian (UTF-8) RU_RU
Spanish es_ES
Spanish (UTF-8) ES_ES
Table note: The system must have en_US environment support installed.
Linux operating systems
Table 2. Server languages for Linux®
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.utf8
Chinese, Traditional Big5 / Zh_TW
zh_TW
zh_TW.utf8
English, United States en_US
en_US.utf8
French fr_FR
fr_FR.utf8
German de_DE
de_DE.utf8
Italian it_IT
it_IT.utf8
Japanese ja_JP
ja_JP.utf8
Korean ko_KR
ko_KR.utf8
Portuguese, Brazilian pt_BR
pt_BR.utf8
Russian ru_RU
ru_RU.utf8
Spanish es_ES
es_ES.utf8
Windows operating systems
Table 3. Server languages for Windows
Language LANGUAGE option value
Chinese, Simplified chs
Chinese, Traditional cht
English ameng
French fra
German deu
Italian ita
Japanese jpn
Korean kor
Portuguese, Brazilian ptb
Russian rus
Spanish esp

Examples

Linux operating systemsAIX operating systems
lang ja_JP
Windows operating systems
lang jpn