Sybase 12.4.2 User Manual

CHAPTER 9    International Languages and Character Sets

Language label values

The following table shows the valid language label values, together with the 
equivalent ISO 639 labels:

Both application and server locale definitions have a character set. The 
application uses its character set when requesting character strings from the 
server. If character set translation is enabled, the database server compares its 
character set with that of the application to determine whether character set 
translation is needed.

For a list of available character set labels, see “Character set labels” on page 
326.

For how to find locale settings, see “Determining locale information” on page 
345.

The client library or database server determines the character set as follows:

1

If the connection string specifies a character set, it is used.

For more information, see the CharSet connection parameter in the 
Adaptive Server IQ Reference Manual.

2

ODBC and Embedded SQL applications check the SQLLOCALE 
environment variable, if it exists.

us_english

english

EN

french

N/A

FR

german

N/A

DE

spanish

N/A

ES

japanese

N/A

JA

korean

N/A

KO

portuguese

portugue

PT

chinese

simpchin

ZH

italian

N/A

IT

tchinese

tradchin

TW

polish

N/A

PL

norwegian

norweg

NO

swedish

N/A

SV

danish

N/A

DA