COUNTRY--Notes Changing default settings 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. Specifying supported languages 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 061 437, 850 English 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 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. Specifying international time and date formats The country code specifies the time and date formats used by the following MS-DOS commands: BACKUP, DATE, RESTORE, and TIME. The following table lists the date and time formats related to each country code. For each country code, the "Date format" column shows how MS-DOS displays January 3, 1993, and the "Time format" 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 format code format 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 061 23-01-1993 5:35:00.00p English 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 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.