Supported languages
You can specify that text documents be processed by using a specific language. The text search feature supports the linguistic processing of text documents by 26 different language codes.
You can specify the language for the indexed text data in the SYSPROC.SYSTS_CREATE administration stored procedure. If you set the value to AUTO, the text search server tries to determine the language.
Automatic language detection is more accurate for longer documents. For very short documents that consist of just a few words, automatic language detection is not recommended. The default language for linguistic processing is English (en_US).
The following table shows the five-character language codes for the supported languages.
| Language code | Language |
|---|---|
| ar_AA | Arabic |
| cs_CZ | Czech |
| da_DK | Danish |
| de_CH | German (Switzerland) |
| de_DE | German (Germany) |
| el_GR | Greek |
| en_AU | English (Australia) |
| en_GB | English (United Kingdom) |
| en_US | English (United States) |
| es_ES | Spanish (Spain) |
| fi_FI | Finnish |
| fr_CA | French (Canada) |
| fr_FR | French (France) |
| it_IT | Italian |
| ja_JP | Japanese |
| ko_KR | Korean |
| nb_NO | Norwegian Bokmal |
| nl_NL | Dutch |
| nn_NO | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| pl_PL | Polish |
| pt_BR | Brazilian Portuguese |
| pt_PT | Portuguese (Portugal) |
| ru_RU | Russian |
| sv_SE | Swedish |
| zh_CN | Simplified Chinese |
| zh_TW | Traditional Chinese |