Supported KCM output languages

The language_code function accepts both the KCM and RFC 1766 language codes presented in the following table. The language_code function always returns the KCM language code for the selected language.

The RFC 1766 language codes are case-insensitive.

If support for the requested language could not be found, the current language is not changed, and the old language setting is returned.

Examples are provided here.

ASSIGN language := language_code( "ENG" )
ASSIGN language := language_code( "en-GB" )

Both calls to the language_code function select the English (Great Britain) language support. Both calls return the Template scripting language code ENG.

 ASSIGN language := language_code ( "X-Query")

The below call retrieves the currently active language code by attempting to switch to a non-existing language.

The Polish and Hungarian languages use characters that are not present in the latin-1 character set. Therefore, the functions uppercases, uppercase2, and lowercase2 may not always result in the desired output. If the language_code is set to HUN or POL, you should use the function compare_characters (see compare_characters) to compare two TEXTs, the function fragment_of_characters (see number_of_characters) to separate a fragment from a TEXT, and the function number_of_characters (see number_of_characters) to calculate the length of a string.

The function date_in_words (see date_in_words) is not supported for the Polish language.

The function area_in_words (see area_in_words) is not supported for the Hungarian language.