File names in languages other than English can use characters that have diacritic marks, or accents, or can use characters that are not even in the Roman alphabet. UNIX and Windows systems can create file names with no restrictions, provided that they do not violate the naming conventions of the operating system that they were created in. The language you select affects multiprotocol behavior and the code page for WIndows 98 and older clients.
To make sure that file names stored on the filer are usable by both UNIX and Windows applications, you must choose a character set that contains the characters in the language that your clients use. To do so, you choose a language, and the filer uses a character set that is appropriate to the language.
Every volume uses a language, and therefore a character set, that you specify for file names. The root volume determines the code page for PCs and the console character set.
The language you specify controls the name translation between UNIX and Windows names. If you installed a new filer, you selected a default language when you set up the filer. If you upgraded to Data ONTAP 5.3, you must use the vol lang command to set the language.
Note: If a filer is licensed for CIFS, you must set a language for every volume on the filer.
The filer uses a character set appropriate to a given language. The language you select determines which character set the filer uses for the following names:
Note: The following must be in ASCII:
The filer supports the following types of character sets. The following table shows what protocols and operating systems use a particular character set. You use this information to determine what directory format you use.
The filer supports the languages shown in the following table. The language code for each language appears next to the language. To override the normal UNIX character set so that a UNIX system uses UTF-8 code, add .UTF-8 to the language code.
You use a language code to specify a language with the vol lang command, as described in "Setting the language of a volume."
The following flow chart shows how to choose a language.
You can perform the following operations to query and specify the language that a volume uses.
| Operation | Section |
|---|---|
| Show what languages the filer supports. | "Displaying a list of supported languages" |
| Specify a language for the console. | "Setting the console encoding" |
| Change the language, and therefore the character set, that a volume uses for file names. | "Setting the language of a volume" |
| Create a volume that uses a specified language other than the default. | "Creating a volume that uses a specified language" |
| Show each volume with the language that it uses. | "Displaying which volume uses which language" |
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