Enables MS-DOS to use country-specific conventions for displaying times, dates, and currency; for determining the order by which characters are sorted; and for determing which characters can be used in filenames. You can use this command only in your CONFIG.SYS file.
he COUNTRY command configures MS-DOS to recognize the character set and punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages.
COUNTRY=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]filename]]
none.
For information about changing characters and their
arrangement on your keyboard, see the
KEYB command,
or see the chapter Customizing for International Use
in the MS-DOS User's Guide.
For information about preparing and selecting character
sets, see
MODE (set device code pages).
For information about loading country-specific
information, see
NLSFUNC.
MS-DOS uses the United States as the default setting. You can use the COUNTRY command in your CONFIG.SYS file to change the setting.
If you do not specify the location and name of the file containing country-specific information, MS-DOS tries to find the COUNTRY.SYS file in the root directory of your startup drive.
The following table lists each country or language supported by MS-DOS. The table also lists the character sets you can use with each country code. For example, if you use country code 003, you can use only character set 437 or 850 for the yyy parameter. The first of the two character sets listed for each country or language is its default character set.
Country or language Country Character sets code
Belgium 032 850, 437
Brazil 055 850, 437
Canadian-French 002 863, 850
Croatia 038 852, 850
Czech Republic 042 852, 850
Denmark 045 850, 865
Finland 358 850, 437
France 033 850, 437
Germany 049 850, 437
Hungary 036 852, 850
International. English 061 437, 850
Italy 039 850, 437
Latin America 003 850, 437
Netherlands 031 850, 437
Norway 047 850, 865
Poland 048 852, 850
Portugal 351 850, 860
Serbia/Yugoslavia 038 852, 850
Slovakia 042 852, 850
Slovenia 038 852, 850
Spain 034 850, 437
Sweden 046 437, 850
Switzerland 041 850, 437
United Kingdom 044 437, 850
United States 001 437, 850
Country or language Country Character sets code
Character sets for the following countries or languages are also available with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, and Taiwan.
The country code specifies the time and date formats used by the commands:
The following table lists the date and time formats related to each country code. For each country code, the "Date" column shows how MS-DOS displays January 3, 1993, and the "Time" column shows how MS-DOS displays 5:35 P.M. (with 0 seconds and 0 hundredths of a second).
Country or language Country Date Time
Belgium 032 23/01/1993 17:35:00
Brazil 055 23/01/1993 17:35:00
Canadian-French 002 1993-01-23 17:35:00
Czechoslovakia 042 1993-01-23 17:35:00
Denmark 045 23-01-1993 17.35.00
Finland 358 23.01.1993 17.35.00
France 033 23.01.1993 17:35:00
Germany 049 23.01.1993 17:35:00
Hungary 036 1993-01-23 17:35:00
International. English 061 23-01-1993 5:35:00.00p
Italy 039 23/01/1993 17.35.00
Latin America 003 23/01/1993 5:35:00.00p
Netherlands 031 23-01-1993 17:35:00
Norway 047 23.01.1993 17:35:00
Poland 048 1993-01-23 17:35:00
Portugal 351 23-01-1993 17:35:00
Spain 034 23/01/1993 17:35:00
Sweden 046 1993-01-23 17.35.00
Switzerland 041 23.01.1993 17,35,00
United Kingdom 044 23/01/1993 17:35:00.00
United States 001 01-23-1993 5:35:00.00p
Yugoslavia 038 1993-01-23 17:35:00
Country or language Country Date Time
Character sets for the following countries or languages are also available with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, and Taiwan.
To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French conventions, add the following to your CONFIG.SYS file:
country=033
Assume that the COUNTRY.SYS file is in the root directory of the startup drive. If COUNTRY.SYS is in a different location, you would specify the location in [drive:]path on the command line.
To specify a character set with the country code for France, type:
country=033,850
If you omit the character set but include the [drive:][path] filename parameter, you must still type the comma that would have preceded the character set:
country=033,,C:][\DOS\]COUNTRY.SYS
none.