Understanding data management

Choosing a language for a volume

About volumes and languages

Every volume has a language. The filer uses a character set appropriate to the language. You can specify a language for each volume if you do not want to use the language of the root volume. You can specify the language of a volume when you create the volume or change it later.

The language you specify determines which character set the filer uses for the following names:

File names
User names
Share names
System and domain names
Note
Names for the following objects must be in ASCII characters:
Qtrees
Snapshots
Volumes

Language codes

You use a language code to specify a language, as described in Creating a volume.

The filer supports the languages shown in the following table. The language code for each language appears next to the language. If you want to override the normal UNIX character set so that a UNIX system uses UTF-8 as the NFS character set, add UTF-8 to the language code.

Language	Language code
Chinese (Simplified)	zh
Chinese (Simplified - GBK)	zh.GBK
Chinese (Traditional - euc-tw)	zh_TW
Chinese (Traditional - Big 5)	zh_TW.BIG5
Danish	da
Dutch	nl
English	en
English (US)	en_US
Finnish	fi
French	fr
German	de
Hebrew	he
Italian	it
Japanese euc-j	ja
Japanese PCK (sjis)	ja_JP.PCK
Korean	ko
Norwegian	no
Portuguese	pt
POSIX (ASCII only for DOS and ISO-Latin1 for NFS. Equivalent to the Sun locale.)	C
Spanish	es
Swedish	sv

UTF-8 Examples

The following table shows examples of language codes for UTF-8.

Language	Language code	Language code for UTF-8
Danish	da	da.UTF-8
Japanese PCK (sjis)	ja_JP.PCK	ja_JP.PCK.UTF-8

Viewing the language list on-line

It might be useful to view the list of languages before you choose one for a volume. To view the list of languages, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: vol lang

Choosing a language for a volume

To choose a language for a volume, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	If the volume is used for...	Then...
	NFS only	Do nothing; the language does not matter.
	CIFS only	Set the language of the volume to the language of its clients.
	Both NFS and CIFS	Set the language of the volume to the locale used by NFS.