Country enables the MS-DOS subsystem to use international time, date, currency, case-insensitive conversion, and decimal delimiters

Country
Enables the MS-DOS subsystem to use international time, date, currency, case-insensitive conversion, and decimal delimiters.

Syntax
Country = xxx [, [YYY] [, [drive:] [path] filename]

Parameters
Xxx
Country (region)Code.
Yyy
Specifies the country code page.
[Drive:} [path] filename
Specifies the location and name of the file containing country (region) information.
/?
Display help at the command prompt.
Note
The country command configures the MS-DOS subsystem to identify the character set used by one of the supported languages and the punctuation protocols observed. Use the % SystemRoot % \ system32 \ config. nt file orProgramTo load the "country (region)" setting.
Supported languages
The following table lists all countries or languages supported by the MS-DOS subsystem. This table lists the code pages that can use each country code. For example, if the country code used is 003, you can use only the code page 437 or 850 for the yyy parameter. The first page of the two code pages listed in each country or language is the default code page.

Country or language country code page
US 001 437,850
Canadian-French 002 863,850
Netherlands 031 850,437
Belgium 032 850,437
France 033 850,437
Spain 034 850,437
Hungary 036 852,850
Italy 039 850,437
Switzerland 041 850,437
Czech Republic 042 852,850
Slovakia 042 852,850
UK 044 437,850
Denmark 045 850,865
Sweden 046 850,437
Norway 047 850,865
Poland 048 852,850
Germany 049 850,437
Brazil 055 850,437
International English 061 437,850
Portugal 351 850,860
Finland 358 850,437

Specify international time and date format
Country Code specifies the time and date format used by the following command: backup, date, and time.

The following table lists the date and time formats related to each country code. For each country (region) Code, the date format column displays January 3, 1994, and the time format column displays p.m. (the second and 1% second columns are both 0 ).

Country (region) or language country (region) code Date Format time format
United States 001 01/03/1994 5:35:00. 00 p
Canada-002 French 17:35:00
Latin America 003 03/01/1994 5:35:00. 00 p
Netherlands 031 03-01-94 17:35:00
Belgium 032 03/01/94 17:35:00
France 033 03.01.1994 17:35:00
Spain 034 3/01/94 17:35:00
Hungary 036 1994.01.03 17:35:00
Italy 039 03/01/94 17.35.00
Switzerland 041 03.01.94 17 35.00
Czech Republic 042 03.01.1994 17:35:00
Slovakia 042 03.01.1994 17:35:00
UK 044 03/01/94 17:35:00. 00
Denmark 045 03-01-94 17.35.00
Sweden 046 1994-01-03 17.35.00
Norway 047 03.01.94 17:35:00
Poland 048 17:35:00
Germany 049 03.01.1994 17:35:00
Brazilian 055 03/01/94 17:35:00
International English 061 03/01/1994 17:35:00. 00
Portugal 351 17:35:00
Finland 358 3.1.1994 17.35.00

Example
To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French, add the following command to the config. nt file:

Country = 033

Specify the code page with country (region) code in France. Type:

Country = 033,850

If you omit the code page but include the [drive:] [path] filename parameter, you must still enter a comma before the code page, as shown in the following example:

Country = 033, c: \ winnt \ system32 \ country. sys

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