Handle languages with no NLV support

If you need to support a language that does not have a supported national language version, follow the general steps in this topic.

  1. Study the available national language versions. Find out which national language version most closely resembles your language in character representation.
  2. Install the most appropriate national language version as your primary language.
  3. Modify the system values to meet your cultural needs. For example, set date and time formats to meet those of the culture that you are supporting.
  4. Configure your workstations and printers to match your primary language. Then, handle discrepancies between support for the installed NLV and your own language.
    Note: The workstation customization functions can support only those capabilities built into your hardware. You cannot support functions through workstation customization that your hardware is unable to support.
  5. Use the Create Table (CRTTBL) command to create a sort sequence table based on the existing table that most nearly matches the appropriate sorting sequence for your language.
  6. If your language is a DBCS language, create your own characters (UDC) to represent missing characters in the code page associated with the NLV you installed. UDC is an acronym for a user-defined character that is created through the character generator utility (CGU). CGU is an extension of the code page with special user-defined ideographic characters, symbols, or logos.
Related concepts
System values for other languages with no national language version
Related reference
Create Table (CRTTBL) command