The Country choice specifies to the computer the country code, the associated national-language and multilingual code pages, and the appropriate money symbols, decimal separator, and date and time formats.
Users should use their default national-language choices except when they work with files that were created using other national languages or plan to send files to other countries. In those instances, they can use the multilingual code page.
The OS/2 2.0 installation defaults for country information and code pages are listed in Table 8.
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When users select a country, both the primary and secondary code pages are loaded into memory at system startup. The primary code page is active by default. Users can switch to the secondary code page during a session by using the Country object in the System Setup folder, or by using the Change Code Page (CHCP) command at a command prompt.
If a country is not listed, the user or planner should review the code-page tables to determine which code page can provide the characters that are most similar to ones used in the country in question. Then the user or planner should select a country code that supports that code page.