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<h1 class="topictitle1">Globalization</h1>
<div><p>Because the <span class="keyword">i5/OS™</span> PASE
run time is based on the AIX<sup>®</sup> run time, <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
programs can use the same rich set of programming interfaces for locales,
character string manipulation, date and time services, message catalogs, and
character encoding conversions supported on AIX.</p>
<p><span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE supports
the interfaces in AIX run time for managing the locale that an application
uses and for performing locale-sensitive functions (such as ctype and strcoll),
including support for both single-byte and multibyte character encoding.</p>
<p><span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE includes
a subset of AIX locales,
which provide support for a large number of countries and languages using
industry-standard encoding (code sets ISO8859-x), code set IBM-1250, and code
set UTF-8. <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE provides
support for the Euro in three different ways: IBM-1252 locales and ISO 8859-15
locales (both of which use single-byte encodings), and UTF-8 locales.</p>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> Locale support for <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
is independent of either form of locale support used by ILE C programs (object
types *CLD and *LOCALE). In addition to internal structural differences, none
of the existing shipped locales for ILE C programs supports ASCII.</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Create new locales</h4><p><span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE does not ship a utility
to create new locales. However, you can create locales for use in <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE on an AIX system with
the <tt>localedef</tt> utility.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Change locales</h4><p>When
an <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE application
changes locales, generally it also should change the <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
CCSID (using the _SETCCSID runtime function) to match the encoding for the
new locale. This ensures that any character data interface arguments are correctly
interpreted by <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
run time (and possibly converted when calling an EBCDIC system service). You
can use the <tt>cstoccsid</tt> runtime function to determine what CCSID corresponds
to a code set name.</p>
<p>The <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
run time sets the CCSID tag on any file created by an <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
program to the current <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
CCSID value (supplied either when the program is started or using the most
recent _SETCCSID value). </p>
<p>You should use UTF-8 locales for <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE applications that support
Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> includes
other locales for these languages, but the system does not support setting
the <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE CCSID to
match the encoding for IBM-euc<em>XX</em> code sets. Using UTF-8 support might
require converting file data that might be stored in other encoding (such
as Shift-JIS) when the application runs on other platforms.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Where <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
conversion objects and locales are stored</h4><p>Conversion objects and
locales for <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
are packaged with <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> language
feature codes. When you install <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE,
only those locales that are associated with installed <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> language
features are created.</p>
<p>All <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
locales use ASCII or UTF-8 character encoding; therefore, all <span class="keyword">i5/OS</span> PASE
run time works in ASCII (or UTF-8).</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzalfinteract.htm" title="As you customize your i5/OS PASE programs to use i5/OS functions, you need to consider the ways in which your program will interact with them.">How i5/OS PASE programs interact with i5/OS</a></div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzalfinstall.htm" title="You can follow the instructions in this topic to install i5/OS PASE on your server.">Install i5/OS PASE</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
<div><a href="../nls/rbagsglobalmain.htm">i5/OS globalization</a></div>
<div><a href="../apis/pase_locales.htm">i5/OS PASE locales</a></div>
<div><a href="../apis/pase__setccsid.htm">_SETCCSID()--Set i5/OS PASE CCSID</a></div>
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