National language support

The LANG environment variable determines which message catalogs are used. All message catalogs are installed by default. If LANG is not defined or is assigned an unsupported locale, en_US message catalogs are used. This topic introduces a list of available locales.

The XL C/C++ messages support the following language locales:

English (en_US) is the default national language. Following installation, you can set the NLSPATH so that messages are displayed in a different language. See Enabling the XL C/C++ error messages.