How to change locale?

[Srimalik]

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

[singvey]

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

[Srimalik]

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

Is there some config file to change the system locale?

[AwadheshPandey]

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

[Dennis Handly]

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

[Srimalik]

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 ªà à ©èà ¹ñB
bash-2.05#

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

Am i missing something?

[Srimalik]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>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

[Dennis Handly]

>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??

[Srimalik]

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

[Srimalik]

See above posts ..Thanks to all of you.