topic Re: default ecoding and character set in Operating System - Linux

default ecoding and character set

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:07:45 GMT

Hi Gurus,
10 point to win!

I need to know the defaut ecoding type and the character set of my server HP-UX 11.11.
How can see info about these topics and about convertions between ecoding types, characters set?

TIA,
Art

Re: default ecoding and character set

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:10:54 GMT

Hi:

# locale

Start with the manpages for 'locale(1)'. Follow the "See Also" manpage suggestions at the end, too :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: default ecoding and character set

Peter Godron — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:11:15 GMT

Art,
#locale LC_CTYPE
should give you default char set

Re: default ecoding and character set

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:14:17 GMT

Hi Art,

You can find more information from # man locale.

-Arun

Re: default ecoding and character set

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:18:53 GMT

Hi JRF,
this is the output of locale -A on my server:
locale -A
32-bit locales are:
C
POSIX
C.iso88591
C.iso885915
C.utf8
univ.utf8

64-bit locales are:
C
POSIX
C.iso88591
C.iso885915
C.utf8
univ.utf8

what are teh enconding type and the character set?

Re: default ecoding and character set

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:29:56 GMT

Hi Art,

You are having ISO 8859-1 encoding.

-Arun

Re: default ecoding and character set

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:49:56 GMT

Hi (again) Art:

If you simply do 'locale' you will see yuor current values. For instance, my LC_TIME is:

LC_TIME="C"

If I do 'locale -a' I will see all of the locales available for choice. For instance:

# date
Thu Mar 2 09:44:53 EST 2006
# LC_TIME=de_DE.iso88591 date
Do., 02. MÃ¤rz 2006, 09:45:06

In the second command I set the locale (temporarily) to a German one since it was one choice available to me.

As for character sets, you need to look at the other manpages I mentioned, such as 'localedef(1M), 'charmap(4)' and 'environ(5)' among others.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: default ecoding and character set

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:00:34 GMT

thanks JRF