To have successful international language and country support, several interrelated statements, such as CODEPAGE, COUNTRY, and DEVINFO, must be included in the CONFIG.SYS file. CODEPAGE identifies the character set; COUNTRY specifies money symbols, decimal separators, and date and time format; and DEVINFO identifies the type of device (keyboard, display, or printer) to be used by the computer system.
Users can have the installation program automatically insert these statements in the CONFIG.SYS file during installation, or they can make the CONFIG.SYS changes manually.
If users install OS/2 2.0 using the SELECT FEATURES option, they are shown several default choices in the System Configuration window, including Country and Keyboard. They can accept these defaults, or they can change them in the window. After the initial installation, they can use the Selective Install object to change or add country support.