Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

Use OS Locale (-useOsLocale)

Use the Use OS Locale (-useOsLocale) parameter to set certain default localization options in OpenEdge clients.

Operating system and syntax	Windows	-useOsLocale
Use with	Maximum value	Minimum value	Single-user default	Multi-user default
Client Session	–	–	–	–

It causes Progress to set the SESSION system handle attributes based on the current Windows locale settings, shown in Table 4–6. The table also shows the startup parameters that individually affect the value of each attribute.

Table 4–6: Attributes set by Use OS Locale (–useOsLocale)

SESSION system handle attribute	Associated startup parameters
DATE-FORMAT	Date Format (-d)
NUMERIC-DECIMAL-POINT	Fractional Separator (-numdec)
NUMERIC-FORMAT	European Numeric Format (-E) Fractional Separator (-numdec) Thousands Separator (-numsep)
NUMERIC-SEPARATOR	Thousands Separator (-numsep)

If any of the startup parameters shown in the table appear on the same command line with the -useOsLocale parameter, any that follow -useOsLocale override the setting from -useOsLocale and any that -useOsLocale follows are overridden by the setting from -useOsLocale.

For more information on these SESSION system handle attributes, see OpenEdge Development: Progress 4GL Reference .