The
Language property is used to set the language used to compare and sort Unicode items (Unicode Text item or Unicode Text Memo item). You can:
- Find out the language parameters used at runtime for comparing and sorting. This property can be used for an item defined in the data model editor or defined through programming. The modifications performed by the H.LanguageCreationUnicode variable are taken into account.
- Define the parameters of the language used for the comparisons and for the sort (when the item is described through programming). In this case, this property is equivalent to the LanguageDescribed property.
// Returns the language of the item
Trace("Language used in the data file: ") + Customer.Name.Language
Syntax
Finding out the language parameters Hide the details
Language parameters> = <Data file>.<Item>.Language
<Language settings>: Character string
Characteristics of the language used for the comparisons and for the sort, in the following format:
<Language identifier> + TAB + <Country identifier> + TAB + <Variant>
If the language parameters have been defined in the analysis as being: - "Defined at creation", <Language parameters> will correspond to the hLanguageCreation constant (or to "##CREATION##"+TAB+"##CREATION##"+TAB+"##CREATION##").
- "Binary sort", <Language parameters> will correspond to the hLanguageBinarySort constant (or to "##BINARY##"+TAB+"##BINARY##"+TAB+"##BINARY##").
- "Fast sort (multilingual)", <Language parameters> will correspond to the hLanguageFastSort constant (or to "##FASTSORT##"+TAB+"##FASTSORT##"+TAB+"##FASTSORT##").
<Data file>: Character string
Name of the file used. This name was defined in the data model editor or with the File Description type.
<Item>: Character string
Name of the item used. This name was defined in the data model editor or with the Item Description type.
Remarks
Identifiers of the language
The identifiers used for the languages are as follows:
| |
| Identifier - Language | Identifier - Language |
| AR - Arabic | AS - Assamese |
| BE - Byelorussian | BG - Bulgarian |
| CA - Catalan | CS - Czech |
| DA - Danish | DE - German |
| EL - Modern Greek | EN - English |
| ES - Spanish | ET - Estonian |
| FA - Farsi | FI - Finnish |
| FO - Faroese | FR - French |
| GA - Irish | GU - Gujarati |
| HE - Hebrew | HI - Hindi |
| HR - Croatian | HU - Hungarian |
| ID - Indonesian | IN - Indonesian |
| IS - Icelandic | IT - Italian |
| IW - Hebrew | JA - Japanese |
| KK - Kazakh | KL - Greenlandic |
| KN - Kannada | KO - Korean |
| LT - Lithuanian | LV - Latvian |
| MK - Macedonian | MR - Marathi |
| MS - Malay | MT - Maltese |
| NB - Norwegian bokmål | NL - Dutch |
| NN - Norwegian nynorsk | OM - Galla |
| PA - Punjabi | PL - Polish |
| PS - Patcho | PT - Portuguese |
| RO - Romanian | RU - Russian |
| SH - Latin Serbian | SK - Slovakian |
| SL - Slovenian | SQ - Albanian |
| SR - Serbian | SV - Swedish |
| TA - Tamil | TE - Telugu |
| TH - Thai | TR - Turkish |
| UK - Ukrainian | VI - Vietnamese |
| ZH - Chinese | |
Identifiers of countries
The identifiers used for the countries are as follows:
| | |
| Identifier - Country | Identifier - Country | Identifier - Country |
| AE - United Arab Emirates | AF - Afghanistan | AL - Albania |
| AR - Argentina | AT - Austria | AU - Australia |
| BA - Bosnia-Herzegovina | BE - Belgium | BG - Bulgaria |
| BH - Bahrain | BN - Brunei | BO - Bolivia |
| BR - Brazil | BW - Botswana | BY - Belarus |
| CA - Canada | CH - Switzerland | CL - Chile |
| CN - China | CO - Colombia | CR - Costa Rica |
| CZ - Czech Republic | DE - Germany | DK - Denmark |
| DO - Dominican Republic | DZ - Algeria | EC - Ecuador |
| EE - Estonia | EG - Egypt | ES - Spain |
| ET - Ethiopia | FI - Finland | FO - Faroe Islands |
| FR - France | GB - Great Britain | GL - Greenland |
| GR - Greece | GT - Guatemala | HK - Hong Kong |
| HN - Honduras | HR - Croatia | HU - Hungary |
| ID - Indonesia | IE - Ireland | IL - Israel |
| IN - India | IQ - Iraq | IR - Iran |
| IS - Iceland | IT - Italy | JO - Jordan |
| JP - Japan | KE - Kenya | KR - South Korea |
| KW - Kuwait | KZ - Kazakhstan | LB - Lebanon |
| LT - Lithuania | LU - Luxembourg | LV - Latvia |
| LY - Libya | MA - Morocco | MK - Macedonia |
| MO - Macau | MT - Malta | MX - Mexico |
| MY - Malaysia | NI - Nicaragua | NL - Netherlands |
| NO - Norway | NZ - New Zealand | OM - Oman |
| PA - Panama | PE - Peru | PH - Philippines |
| PL - Poland | PR - Puerto Rico | PT - Portugal |
| PY - Paraguay | QA - Qatar | RO - Romania |
| RU - Russian | SA - Saudi Arabia | SD - Sudan |
| SE - Sweden | SG - Singapore | SI - Slovenia |
| SK - Slovakia | SV - El Salvadore | SY - Syria |
| TH - Thailand | TN - Tunisia | TR - Turkey |
| TW - Taiwan | UA - Ukraine | US - Unites States |
| UY - Uruguay | VE - Venezuela | VI - Virgin Islands of the United States |
| VN - Viet Nam | YE - Yemen | YU - Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| ZA - South Africa | ZW - Zimbabwe | |
Variants
The variants are as follows:
| |
| Variants | Explanation |
| PHONEBOOK | Variant of German |
| POSIX | Variant of English for the Unites States |
| TRADITIONAL | Variant of Spanish |
| DIRECT | Variant of Hindi |
| STROKE | Variant of Chinese from Taiwan |
| PINYIN | Variant of Chinese from China |