<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="concept" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Locale symbolic names" /> <meta name="abstract" content="i5/OS supports locale symbolic names based on predefined names from the X/Open Standard portable character set." /> <meta name="description" content="i5/OS supports locale symbolic names based on predefined names from the X/Open Standard portable character set." /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagslocale.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsportablecharset.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagslocalesymbolmapnames.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbagslocalesymbolicnames" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>Locale symbolic names</title> </head> <body id="rbagslocalesymbolicnames"><a name="rbagslocalesymbolicnames"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Locale symbolic names</h1> <div><p>i5/OS™ supports locale symbolic names based on predefined names from the X/Open Standard portable character set.</p> <p> In addition, i5/OS supports a 5-character alphanumeric symbolic name for all characters, in the following situations:</p> <ul><li>The first character of the symbolic name is a Latin capital letter U. This character identifies that the name is derived from the ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Coded Character Set.</li> <li>The second through fifth characters of the symbolic name represent the code point of the character in the ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Coded Character Set 2 Level 1. This portion of the symbolic name is assigned by code point for ease of creating and changing locales.</li> </ul> <p>As an example, the question mark (?) character provides the following correlation between symbolic naming, UCS2-1 code point, and an IBM-assigned code point:</p> <ul><li>The ? character is symbolically represented by <samp class="codeph"><question-mark></samp></li> <li>It is at code point <samp class="codeph">U003F</samp> in the ISO 10646 code page</li> <li>It is at code point <samp class="codeph">6F</samp> in IBM<sup>®</sup> code page 500.</li> </ul> <p>Mapping of locale symbolic names provides a list of all symbolic names supported on i5/OS. The table also provides the UCS2-1 (ISO 10646) code points, their corresponding IBM code page or code points, and a graphic representation of each character.</p> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbagslocale.htm" title="Locales are used primarily in ILE-based application programs. Additionally, the Retrieve Locale Information (OPM, QLGRTVLC; ILE, QlgRetrieveLocaleInformation) API retrieves one or all categories of a locale.">Work with locales</a></div> </div> <div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> <div><a href="rbagsportablecharset.htm">Portable character set</a></div> <div><a href="rbagslocalesymbolmapnames.htm" title="This table lists locale symbolic names.">Mapping of locale symbolic names</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>