Contents Index Understanding locales Understanding the locale language

ASA Database Administration Guide
  International Languages and Character Sets
    Understanding locales

Introduction to locales


The application locale, or client locale, is used by the client library when making requests to the database server, to determine the character set in which results should be returned. If character set translation is enabled (the default), the database server compares its own locale with the application locale to determine whether character set translation is needed. Different databases on a server may have different locale definitions.

The locale consists of the following components:


Contents Index Understanding locales Understanding the locale language