country(CMD) 19 June 1992 country(CMD) Name country - enable MS-DOS to use international time, dates, currency, case conversions, and decimal separators Syntax country=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:] [path]filename]] Description The country command configures MS-DOS to recognize the character set and punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported lan- guages. Parameters xxx Specifies the country code. yyy Specifies the code page for the country. [drive:][path]filename Specifies the location and name of the file containing country in- formation. Notes Changing default settings MS-DOS uses the United States as the default setting. You can use the country command in your CONFIG.SYS file to change the setting. If you do not specify the location and name of the file containing country-specific information, MS-DOS tries to find the COUNTRY.SYS file in the root directory of your startup drive. Specifying supported languages The following table lists each country or language supported by MS-DOS version 5.0. The table also lists the code pages you can use with each country code. For example, if you use country code 003, you can use only code page 437 or 850 for the yyy parameter. The first of the two code pages listed for each country or language is its default code page. _________________________________________________________________________ Country or language Country code Code pages _________________________________________________________________________ United States 001 437, 850 Canadian-French 002 863, 850 Latin America 003 850, 437 Netherlands 031 850, 437 Belgium 032 850, 437 France 033 850, 437 Spain 034 850, 437 Hungary 036 852, 850 Yugoslavia 038 852, 850 Italy 039 850, 437 Switzerland 041 850, 437 Czechoslovakia 042 852, 850 United Kingdom 044 437, 850 Denmark 045 850, 865 Sweden 046 850, 437 Norway 047 850, 865 Poland 048 852, 850 Germany 049 850, 437 Brazil 055 850, 437 International English 061 437, 850 Portugal 351 850, 860 Finland 358 850, 437 Code pages for the following countries or languages are also available with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. Specifying international time and date formats The country code specifies the time and date formats used by the follow- ing MS-DOS commands: backup(CMD), date(CMD), restore(CMD), and time(CMD). The following table lists the date and time formats related to each coun- try code. For each country code, the ``Date format'' column shows how MS-DOS displays January 3, 1991, and the ``Time format'' column shows how MS-DOS displays 5:35 P.M. (with 0 seconds and 0 hundredths of a second). _________________________________________________________________________ Country or language Country code Date format Time format _________________________________________________________________________ United States 001 01/03/1991 5:35:00.00p Canadian-French 002 1991-01-03 17:35:00,00 Latin America 003 03/01/1991 5:35:00.00p Netherlands 031 03-01-1991 17:35:00,00 Belgium 032 03/01/1991 17:35:00,00 France 033 03.01.1991 17:35:00,00 Spain 034 03/01/1991 17:35:00,00 Hungary 036 1991-01-03 17:35:00,00 Yugoslavia 038 1991-01-03 17:35:00,00 Italy 039 03/01/1991 17.35.00,00 Switzerland 041 03.01.1991 17,35,00.00 Czechoslovakia 042 1991-01-03 17:35:00,00 United Kingdom 044 03/01/1991 17:35:00.00 Denmark 045 03-01-1991 17.35.00,00 Sweden 046 1991-01-03 17.35.00,00 Norway 047 03.01.1991 17:35:00,00 Poland 048 1991-01-03 17:35:00,00 Germany 049 03.01.1991 17:35:00,00 Brazil 055 03/01/1991 17:35:00,00 International English 061 03/01/1991 17:35:00.00 Portugal 351 03-01-1991 17:35:00,00 Finland 358 03.01.1991 17.35.00,00 Code pages for the following countries or languages are also available with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. Examples To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French conven- tions, add the following command to your CONFIG.SYS file: country=033 For this example, assume that the COUNTRY.SYS file is in the root direc- tory of the startup drive. If COUNTRY.SYS is in a different location, you specify the location in [drive:]path on the command line. To specify a code page with the country code for France, type the follow- ing: country=033,850 If you omit the code page but include the [drive:] [path]filename param- eter, you must still type the comma that would have preceded the code page, as the following example shows: country=033,,c:\dos\country.sys Related commands For information about changing characters and their arrangement on your keyboard, see the keyb(CMD) command. For information about preparing and selecting code pages, see the mode(CMD) (set device code pages) command. For information about loading country-specific information, see the nlsfunc(CMD) command.