# Locale

In the Locale dialog box, based on the languages that you must support, you can select the character set. Before you start this installation you must have already considered whether to use a Singlebyte or a Multi byte character set. Select the correct locale that is used to store the characters for your language. Use the drop down arrow to select a character set.

## Single byte

ANSI-standard or single byte strings are stored as unsigned byte-characters, each byte containing a different character. If you select Single byte, you must be aware that the character sets from which you can choose are limited to a maximum of 256 different characters. This is sufficient for the English and (most) European languages. Note that single byte strings can cause issues for languages that have alphabets with more than 256 characters. Use the drop down arrow to select a character set. The default character set is International (ISO_BIN1). For example; in case of an English installation, select Single byte and ISO_BIN1 (the default).

ISO_BIN1 is a binary sort order of ISO 8859-1. ISO_BIN2 is a binary sort order of ISO 8859-2 and so on.

## Multi byte

Multi byte can be used as a solution to the 256-characters limitation. Multi byte characters can use one or two bytes to represent a character and requires double the amount of disk space. Multi byte is mainly used to support Asian languages, which often have many characters. Bear in mind that in the near future and already on 32 bit Windows, Mutlibyte is replaced by Unicode.

A Multi byte installation requires double the amount of disk space. Contact Infor if you want more specific sizing information.