LC_ALL

This variable supports the transfer of double-byte character variables and string literals and has meaning only on 32-bit Windows systems that support double-byte characters (e.g., Asian Windows machines). It should not be set in other environments and is needed only if you are passing data to a COBOL program from another language, such as Visual Basic, and are using C$GETVARIANT or C$SETVARIANT. By using the LC_ALL configuration variable, you cause the runtime to set the locale to a particular value. You do not need to set this variable on Japanese machines. The runtime automatically detects Japanese versions of Windows and automatically sets the locale, LC_ALL, to Japanese_Japan.932.

The default value for this variable is C. The C locale assumes that all characters are 1 byte and that their value is always less than 256. The value of LC_ALL is in the format:

language[_country[.code_page]]

or

.code_page

where language is one of the supported language strings, country is one of the supported country or region strings, and code_page is the Windows code page setting for the language and country. country and code_page are optional. For example, the following are all equivalent:

LC_ALL Japanese
LC_ALL Japanese_Japan
LC_ALL Japanese_Japan.932
LC_ALL .932

For Korean double-byte character support under Windows use:

LC_ALL Korean

For Chinese use:

LC_ALL Chinese

or

LC_ALL Chinese-simplified

or

LC_ALL Chinese-traditional

The following are the supported language strings:

The following are the supported country/region strings: