Specifying International Preferences

Users can specify preferences related to the user's country and language. This list of preferences is known as the locale for that user.

You can specify these preferences by double-clicking the International icon in Control Panel. You can specify your preference for the following:

When you change the setting for COUNTRY, you may notice that some of the other settings change automatically. For example, the Currency Format is changed to reflect the currency used in the country you have chosen, and the date format changes to conform to the language and conventions of that country. When you change the setting for Language, code pages and fonts may change (certain letters and marks are used in some languages but not in others). Generally, if you set both Country and Language, you will have the entire set of international settings that you need.

Note

The Country and Language settings determine how alphabetical lists will be sorted. For example, in English D is followed by E. In Icelandic, an eth (ð) comes between D and E. Spanish CH sorts as a unique character between C and D; Danish AE is a unique letter after Z and before Ø. Swedish Å looks like A, but it is a unique letter that sorts after Z and before Ä (another unique letter in Swedish). In French, the ordering of basic diacritics is:

acute < grave < circumflex < diaeresis

For more information about specific fields in the International dialog box, see online Help.

Windows NT supports the following locales:

Table C.1 Code Pages