Regional Settings

[Clodoaldo João Rodrigue]

Hello All.

I have one question:
How can I change the regional settings ? for example: Nunbers, Date, etc.
Because, we have an application and it use a nunber in brazilian format (###.###,##) and in the system is ###,###,##.
Thanks for all.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This is determined by the environment - specifically the LC_NUMERIC value. Man 5 environ for details and other settings such as LC_MONETARY. Within an application this is typically done using the setlocale() function although you can also set and export the environment before executing the application.

[Alex Glennie]

At a guess I'd set the LANG and associated variables : see man 5 environ ie

LC_NUMERIC and LC_MONETARY

[Tom Danzig]

man locale