GLS User's Guide

These topics describe the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in IBM® Informix® products.

The GLS feature allows IBM Informix application-programming interfaces (APIs) and IBM Informix database servers to handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets. These topics describe only the language-related topics that are unique to GLS.

These topics provide GLS information about IBM Informix database servers for both Microsoft Windows and UNIX.

These topics are written for system administrators and application developers who want to use the GLS environment to create globalized database management applications with IBM Informix products.

These topics are primarily intended for those users who must use IBM Informix products with a nondefault locale. It assumes that you are familiar with IBM Informix database servers and associated products.

If you need more information about features of your operating system to support non-ASCII characters in file names, path names, and other contexts, see your operating system documentation.

For information about software compatibility, see the IBM Informix GLS release notes.

Also see the IBM Informix GLS API Programmer's Guide, a companion document that describes the global language support (GLS) application programming interface (API) available in IBM Informix ESQL/C and IBM Informix DataBlade modules.

These topics are taken from the IBM Informix GLS User's Guide.