Country Choice

The Country choice specifies to the computer the country code, the associated national-language and multilingual code pages, and the appropriate money symbols, decimal separator, and date and time formats.

Users should use their default national-language choices except when they work with files that were created using other national languages or plan to send files to other countries. In those instances, they can use the multilingual code page.

The OS/2 2.0 installation defaults for country information and code pages are listed in Table 8.


Table: Country and Code Page Defaults
COUNTRY COUNTRY CODE PRIMARY SECONDARY
    CODE PAGE CODE PAGE
Arabic-speaking 785 864 850
Asia (English) 99 437 850
Australia (English) 61 437 850
Belgium 32 850 437
Canada (French) 2 863 850
Czechoslovakia 42 852 850
Denmark 45 850 n/a
Finland 358 850 437
France 33 437 850
Germany 49 850 437
Hebrew-speaking 972 862 850
Hungary 36 852 850
Iceland 354 850 861
Italy 39 437 850
Japan 81 932 437, 850
Korea 82 934 437, 850
Latin America 3 437 850
Netherlands 31 850 437
Norway 47 850 n/a
Peoples Republic of 88 938 437, 850
China      
Poland 48 852 850
Portugal 351 850 860
Spain 34 850 437
Sweden 46 850 437
Switzerland (French) 41 850 437
Switzerland (German) 41 850 437
Taiwan 88 437 850
Turkey 90 857 850
United Kingdom 44 437 850
United States 1 437 850
Yugoslavia 38 852 850


When users select a country, both the primary and secondary code pages are loaded into memory at system startup. The primary code page is active by default. Users can switch to the secondary code page during a session by using the Country object in the System Setup folder, or by using the Change Code Page (CHCP) command at a command prompt.

If a country is not listed, the user or planner should review the code-page tables to determine which code page can provide the characters that are most similar to ones used in the country in question. Then the user or planner should select a country code that supports that code page.