Determination of the locale from system settings

If COBOL for AIX cannot determine the value of an applicable locale category from the environment variables, it uses default settings.

When the language and country codes are determined from environment variables, but the code page is not, COBOL for AIX uses the default system code page for the language and country-code combination.

Multiple code pages might apply to the language and country-code combination. If you do not want the AIX system to select a default code page, you must specify the code page explicitly.

UTF-8: UTF-8 encoding is supported for any language and country-code combination.

related tasks  
Specifying the code page for character data  
Using environment variables to specify a locale  
Accessing the active locale and code-page values  
Setting environment variables

related references  
Locales and code pages that are supported
  
Compiler and runtime environment variables