Locale symbolic names

i5/OS™ supports locale symbolic names based on predefined names from the X/Open Standard portable character set.

In addition, i5/OS supports a 5-character alphanumeric symbolic name for all characters, in the following situations:

• 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.
• 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.

As an example, the question mark (?) character provides the following correlation between symbolic naming, UCS2-1 code point, and an IBM-assigned code point:

• The ? character is symbolically represented by <question-mark>
• It is at code point U003F in the ISO 10646 code page
• It is at code point 6F in IBM^® code page 500.

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.