LOCALES.SYS enables MiniVMDOS to use country-specific conventions for displaying times, dates, and currency; for determining the order by which characters are sorted; and for determing which characters can be used in filenames. You can use this command only in your CONFIG.SYS file.
The LOCALES command configures MiniVMDOS to recognize the character set and punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages.
COUNTRY=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]filename]]Parameters
xxxSpecifies the country code.
yyySpecifies the character set for the country.
[drive:][path]filenameSpecifies the location and name of the file containing country information.
Specifying supported languages
The following table lists each country or language supported by MiniVMDOS. The table also lists the character sets you can use with each country code. For example, if you use country code 003, you can use only character set 437 or 850 for the yyy parameter. The first of the two character sets listed for each country or language is its default character set.
Country or language Country Character sets
code
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Belgium 032 850, 437
Brazil 055 850, 437
Canadian-French 002 863, 850
Croatia 038 852, 850
Czech Republic 042 852, 850
Denmark 045 850, 865
Finland 358 850, 437
France 033 850, 437
Germany 049 850, 437
Hungary 036 852, 850
International 061 437, 850
English
Italy 039 850, 437
Latin America 003 850, 437
Netherlands 031 850, 437
Norway 047 850, 865
Poland 048 852, 850
Portugal 351 850, 860
Serbia/Yugoslavia 038 852, 850
Slovakia 042 852, 850
Slovenia 038 852, 850
Spain 034 850, 437
Sweden 046 437, 850
Switzerland 041 850, 437
United Kingdom 044 437, 850
United States 001 437, 850
To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French conventions, add the following command to your CONFIG.SYS file:
COUNTRY=033
For this example, assume that the LOCALES.SYS file is in the root directory of the startup drive. If LOCALES.SYS is in a different location, you would specify the location in [drive:]path on the command line.
To specify a character set with the country code for France, type the following:
COUNTRY=033,850If you omit the character set but include the [drive:][path] filename parameter, you must still type the comma that would have preceded the character set, as the following example shows:
COUNTRY=033,,C:\BIN\LOCALES.SYS
Starts the KEYS program, which configures a keyboard for a specific language. Use KEYS to configure a keyboard for a language other than United States English.
keys [xx][+!-]
Parameters
keys xxSpecifies the code for a keyboard layout. See the table at the end of this topic for a list of valid values for this parameter.
keys xx+
Forces the keyboard program to assume an enhanced (101/102/104 key) keyboard.
keys xx-
Forces the keyboard program to assume a standard (83/84 key) keyboard.
The following table shows the valid values for xx for each country or language supported:
Country or Keyboard layout language (xx value) ------------------------------------- Belgium be Brazil br Canadian-French cf Czechoslovakia cz (Czech) Czechoslovakia sl (Slovak) Denmark dk Finland su France fr Germany gr Hungary hu Italy it Latin America la Netherlands nl Norway no Poland pl Portugal po Spain sp Sweden sv Switzerland sf (French) Switzerland sg (German) United Kingdom uk United States us Yugoslavia yu
