Country
Enables the MS-DOS subsystem to use international time, dates, currency, case conversions, and decimal separators.
Syntax
country=xxx[,[yyy][,[Drive:][Path] FileName]]
Parameters
xxx : Specifies the Country/Region code.
yyy : Specifies the code page for the Country/Region.
[Drive:][Path] FileName : Specifies the location and name of the file containing Country/Region information.
/? : Displays help at the command prompt.
Remarks
| • | The country command configures the MS-DOS subsystem to recognize the character set and punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages. Use the %systemroot%\System32\Config.nt file, or the equivalent startup file specified in a program's program information file (PIF), to load the Country/Region setting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| • | Specifying supported languages The following table lists each Country/Region or language supported by the MS-DOS subsystem. The table also lists the code pages you can use with each Country/Region code. For example, if you use Country/Region 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/Region or language is its default code page.
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| • | Specifying international time and date formats The Country/Region code specifies the time and date formats used by the following commands: backup, date, and time. The following table lists the time and date formats related to each Country/Region code. For each Country/Region code, the Date format column shows the display for January 3, 1994, and the Time format column shows the display for 5:35 P.M. (with 0 seconds and 0 hundredths of a second).
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Examples
To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French conventions, add the following command to your Config.nt file:
country=033
To specify a code page with the country code for France, type:
country=033,850
If you omit the code page but include the [Drive:][Path] FileName parameter, you must still type the comma that would have preceded the code page, as the following example shows:
country=033,,c:\winnt\system32\country.sys
Formatting legend
| Format | Meaning |
Italic | Information that the user must supply |
Bold | Elements that the user must type exactly as shown |
Ellipsis (...) | Parameter that can be repeated several times in a command line |
Between brackets ([]) | Optional items |
Between braces ({}); choices separated by pipe (|). Example: {even|odd} | Set of choices from which the user must choose only one |
Courier font | Code or program output |