default ecoding and character set

[Arturo Galbiati]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# locale

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Godron]

Art,
#locale LC_CTYPE
should give you default char set

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Art,


You can find more information from # man locale.

-Arun

[Arturo Galbiati]

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?

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Art,

You are having ISO 8859-1 encoding.

-Arun

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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. März 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...

[Arturo Galbiati]

thanks JRF