HP-UX language localization

[Don Moss]

I had a quick question regarding language localization on HP-UX... what are the differences between an English and Spanish installation? I would assume that the unix command set would be the same regardless of the language being used. Would system administration be more or less that same on a system that had a different locale?

Thanks,
Dave

[Ceesjan van Hattum · Accepted solution]

Local language settings during installation, will effect the same items as setlocale(3c).

1. Time:Sun for Sunday can be Dom...
2. Characters: introduction multibyte codes for Asian Languages
3. Default currency: where is your decimal points,thousands seperator etc.
4. Monetary values
5. radix character in formated functions (like printf)
6. Behaviour in timeconversion, like getdate.

But unix will be unix; no scripting or systemadmin will change.

In general, we never use local settings. Applications should take care of usercustomization.. not the OS.

Regards,
Ceesjan

[Don Moss]

Ceesjan, I figured it would be an obvious answer... Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Don Moss

[Ceesjan van Hattum]

Hi Don,
Thanks for your thanks, but you also have a possibility to assign points. Did my answer help you or not?
Greetings,
Ceesjan

[Don Moss]

Sorry... I was having problems getting the "Assign Points" link to work yesterday. Thanks again for your help.

Don