topic How to change locale? in Operating System - HP-UX

How to change locale?

Srimalik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:50:45 GMT

Hi,

How can I change the locale on a HP-UX machine.
My current settings are:
bash-2.05# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=
bash-2.05#

I want them to change it to ja_JP.SJIS.

The contents of /usr/lib/locale are:
bash-2.05# ls /usr/lib/locale/
en_US
bash-2.05#
(do I have to install extra lang packages also on my machine)

What all thing I need to do to set the locale to ja_JP.SJIS.?

Thanks
-Sri

Re: How to change locale?

singvey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:14:11 GMT

try it pls :
setlocale(xxxxxxx, "xxxxxx");

Re: How to change locale?

Srimalik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:28:59 GMT

I don't want to do it in a program.

Is there some config file to change the system locale?

Re: How to change locale?

AwadheshPandey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:29:11 GMT

http://techsolutions.hp.com/en/5971-2270/ch03s01.html

Re: How to change locale?

Dennis Handly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:22:35 GMT

To change the locale, you simply export LANG=ja_JP.SJIS.

You can do this is each .profile, or put it in the system wide one /etc/profile.

>do I have to install extra lang packages also on my machine

You may have to do that. What does "locale -a" show?

Does this show anything?
$ swlist -l product International

Re: How to change locale?

Srimalik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:01:07 GMT

After doing this also , it seems that there is something un-configured

When I execute some command the messags are not geeting displayed in Japanese.
for eg.

#list a non existing path.

bash-2.05# ls /opt/sfdsdfsdfs
/opt/sfdsdfsdfs ÂªÃ Ã Â©Ã¨Ã Â¹Ã±B
bash-2.05#

The error message(/opt/sfdsdfsdfs not found) is not in japanese).

Am i missing something?

Re: How to change locale?

Srimalik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:12:02 GMT

I am conneting to the server using putty...do I need anything special on the client side?

Re: How to change locale?

Dennis Handly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:13:40 GMT

>The error message(/opt/sfdsdfsdfs not found) is not in japanese). Am i missing something?

It doesn't look like American Nerd, so it must be something else, maybe Greek. ;-)

If you use tusc, you can see if it opens the Japanese message catalog. If so, it is Japanese. Of course your display may not display it correctly. Do you strip parity?

Here is the raw dump of what I get:
$ LANG=ja_JP.SJIS ls xxxXXXXXXXXXXXX 2> ls.out
$ vis ls.out
xxxXXXXXXXXXXXX \202\252\202\335\202\302\202\251\202\350\202\334\202\271\202\361
\201B

In my case, tusc said it opened:
open("/usr/lib/nls/msg/ja_JP.SJIS/ls.cat", O_RDONLY, 014) = 6

Re: How to change locale?

Dennis Handly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:31:17 GMT

>I am connecting to the server using putty... do I need anything special on the client side?

I assume that side has to know you are using Japanese too??

Re: How to change locale?

Srimalik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:10:53 GMT

it worked when I connect to the HP-UX server from another linux machine and the same LANG exported on client terminal.

Re: How to change locale?

Srimalik — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:16:17 GMT

See above posts ..Thanks to all of you.