Command: country

  COUNTRY sets the international behavior of DOS.
  COUNTRY is a CONFIG.SYS / FDCONFIG.SYS command.

Syntax:

  country=nnn[,[mmm]][,[drive][path]filename]
          drive     The drive letter, e.g. C:
          path      The directory, e.g. \example\
          filename  The filename of a country-information file.
                    If not specified, the file 'COUNTRY.SYS' 
                    is used instead.

Options:

  nnn    The country code, as shown in the table below (001=US).
  mmm    The code page, as shown in the table below (437 is default, 
         850 is updated form, 1252 for Windows).
         If not specified, a code page will be chosen automatically.

  Country Codes
  In the table:

    * HH means a 24hr-clock hour
    * hh a 12hr-clock hour.
    * X means AM and PM are appended 

                                             format for
       Locale      nnn        mmm        date         time
===============================================================US                 001      437, 850   mm/dd/yyyy  hh:mm:ss.ssX
Canadian French    002      863, 850   yyyy-mm-dd  HH:mm:ss,ss
Latin America      003      850, 437   mm/dd/yyyy  hh:mm:ss.ssX
Russia             007      866, 437   dd.mm.yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Netherlands        031      850, 437   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Belgium            032      850, 437   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
France             033      850, 437   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Spain              034      850, 437   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Hungary            036      850, 852   yyyy-mm-dd  HH:mm:ss,ss
Yugoslavia         038      850, 852   yyyy-mm-dd  HH:mm:ss,ss
Italy              039      850, 437   mm/dd/yyyy  HH.mm.ss,ss
Switzerland        041      850, 437   mm.dd.yyyy  HH,mm,ss.ss
Czechoslovakia     042      850, 852   yyyy-mm-dd  HH:mm:ss,ss
UK                 044      850, 437   dd/mm/yyyy  hh:mm:ss.ssX
Denmark            045      850, 865   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Sweden             046      850, 437   yyyy-mm-dd  HH.mm.ss,ss
Norway             047      850, 865   mm.dd.yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Poland             048      850, 852   yyyy-mm-dd  HH:mm:ss,ss
Germany            049      850, 437   dd.mm.yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Argentina          054      850, 437   dd/mm/yyyy  hh:mm:ss.ssX
Brazil             055      850, 860   dd/mm/yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
International
    English        061      850, 437   mm/dd/yyyy  HH:mm:ss.ss
Portugal           351      850, 860   dd-mm-yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss
Finland            358      850, 437   dd.mm.yyyy  HH:mm:ss,ss

Comments:

  COUNTRY enables/sets international features of DOS by selecting a
  country code and (only with the unstable / devel kernel) optionally
  also a codepage and country file. The stable kernel only uses the nnn
  value. For full support, use the unstable / devel kernel. You also
  need a COUNTRY.SYS file for the latter, while the former ignores the
  filename argument and only sets date/time/number formats, using values
  compiled into the kernel for a few common countries. It does not set
  sort order and upper/lower case translation tables. NLSFUNC can only
  be used with the unstable kernel.
  COUNTRY is a command internal to kernel.sys and needs no other file
  in order to work.

Examples:

  IN CONFIG.SYS / FDCONFIG.SYS:
    device=c:\fdos\bin\himemx.exe
    device=c:\fdos\bin\jemm386.exe
    dos=high,umb
    country=001,437,c:\fdos\bin\country.sys

Command: country

Syntax:

Options:

Comments:

Examples:

See also: