Programmer Reference : National Language Support : Locales and platform representation : OS/2 Presentation Manager
OS/2 Presentation Manager
As illustrated in the figure above, each VA Smalltalk locale name corresponds to an ordered pair of integers representing an OS/2 country code and OS/2 code page. Table 55 defines the mappings from VA Smalltalk locale definitions to country code and code page pairs. Locales that are not directly supported by the operating system are marked with a horizontal bar and are not available on OS/2.
For OS/2 Presentation Manager, the platform locale information is a combination of values retrieved from the operating system and the country control panel settings. When the platform default locale is requested (for example, LCMonetary for: #(' ')), values are taken from the country control panel settings. When information for a specific locale is requested (for example, LCMonetary for: #('english' 'us')), the default values for that locale are obtained from the operating system, even if the locale requested is the same as the platform default locale.
When information is unavailable from the platform, U.S. English default values are provided. The following table shows the values that are not available from the operating system, along with their default values.
Note:
The country control panel setting for monetary leading zero is not supported and is ignored on OS/2.
 
Table 54. Items not provided by OS/2 and their default values
Class
Item
VA Smalltalk default value
LCMessages
noStr
'No'
yesStr
'Yes'
LCMonetary
intCurrSymbols
Set to same operating system-supplied value as currencySymbol
intFracDigits
Set to same operating system-supplied value as fracDigits
monGrouping
'3 0'
monThousandsSep
Set to operating system thousands separator
negativeSign
'-'
positiveSign
''
LCNumeric
decimalPoint
Set to same operating system-supplied value as monDecimalPoint
grouping
'3 0'
LCTime
abDay
#('Sun' 'Mon' 'Tues' 'Wed' 'Thu' 'Fri' 'Sat')
abMon
#('Jan' 'Feb' 'Mar' 'Apr' 'May' 'Jun' 'Jul' 'Aug' 'Sep' 'Oct' 'Nov' 'Dec')
day
#('Sunday' 'Monday' 'Tueday' 'Wednesday' 'Thusday' 'Friday' 'Saturday')
mon
#('January' 'February' 'March' 'April' 'May' 'June' 'July' 'August' 'September' 'October' 'November' 'December')
Use of the country control panel
Changing the current country using the country control panel does not change the platform default locale. The platform default locale is defined by the config.sys file and can be modified using the OS/2 selective install.
Table 55. Map from locale names to OS/2 platform values
Locale langauge
Locale territory
Country code
Code pages
arabic
arabic
785
864, 437 850
croatian
yugoCroatian
38
852, 850
czech
czechoslovakia
42
852, 850
danish
denmark
45
865, 850
dutch
belgium
32
437, 850
dutch
netherlands
31
437, 850
english
australia
61
437, 850
english
britain
44
437, 850
english
canada
-
-
english
ireland
-
-
english
new zealand
-
-
english
us
1
437, 850
estonian
estonia
-
-
faeoroese
faeroelsl
-
-
farsi
iran
-
-
finnish
finland
358
437, 850
french
belgium
32
437, 850
french
canada
2
863, 850
french
france
33
437, 850
french
switzerland
41
437, 850
german
austria
-
-
german
germany
49
437, 850
german
switzerland
41
437, 850
greek
greece
-
-
hebrew
israel
972
862, 437, 850
hindi
india
-
-
hungarian
hungary
36
852, 850
icelandic
iceland
354
850, 861
italian
italy
39
437, 850
italian
switzerland
41
437, 850
japanese
japan
81
932, 942, 437, 850
korean
korea
82
949, 944, 437, 850
lappish
lapland
-
-
lettish
latvia
-
-
lithuanian
lithuania
-
-
maltese
malta
-
-
norwegian
norway (Bokmal)
-
-
norwegian
norway (Nynorsk)
47
865, 850
polish
poland
48
852, 850
portuguese
brazil
-
-
portuguese
portugal
351
860, 850
russian
russia
-
-
simpChinese
china
86
936, 946, 437, 850
slovak
czechoslovakia
42
852, 850
spanish
mexico
3
437, 850
spanish
spain (Mod)
34
437, 850
spanish
spain (Trad)
34
437, 850
swedish
sweden
46
437, 850
thai
thailand
-
-
tradChinese
taiwan
88
938, 948, 437, 850
turkish
turkey
90
857, 850
urdu
pakistan
-
-
 
Last modified date: 01/29/2015