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Linux - locale (LANG, LC environment variable)
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Most UNIX systems use the LANG variable to specify the desired locale but you can use also the setlocale function.
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Obtain the locale values
To obtain the locale names for your UNIX system, enter the following:
locale -a
[powercenter@di-obia-01 ~]$ locale -a | grep -i en en_AU en_AU.iso88591 en_AU.utf8 en_BW en_BW.iso88591 en_BW.utf8 en_CA en_CA.iso88591 en_CA.utf8 en_DK en_DK.iso88591 en_DK.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 en_HK en_HK.iso88591 en_HK.utf8 en_IE en_IE@euro en_IE.iso88591 en_IE.iso885915@euro en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NZ en_NZ.iso88591 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH en_PH.iso88591 en_PH.utf8 en_SG en_SG.iso88591 en_SG.utf8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 en_ZA en_ZA.iso88591 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW en_ZW.iso88591 en_ZW.utf8
Obtain the locale values
When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current locale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_* environment variables.
[powercenter@di-obia-01 ~]$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
Set a locale
With the setlocale function
setlocale
