Solaris Locale Settings

USER LOCALE SETTINGS

root@host2:~# locale

LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1

LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_ALL=

root@host2:~#

SYSTEM LOCALE SETTINGS

root@host2:~# nlsadm get-system-locale

LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1

LC_CTYPE=

LC_NUMERIC=

LC_TIME=

LC_COLLATE=

LC_MONETARY=

LC_MESSAGES=

LC_ALL=

EXAMPLES

root@host2:~# nlsadm set-system-locale fr_FR.UTF-8

Warning:

/usr/bin/pkg search -l -H -o pkg.name,action.raw path:/usr/lib/locale//

...

pkg: Search performance is degraded.

Run 'pkg rebuild-index' to improve search speed.

Setting SMF property environment/LANG with value: 'fr_FR.UTF-8' ...

Successfully set

root@host2:~#

root@host2:~# nlsadm get-system-locale

LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

LC_CTYPE=

LC_NUMERIC=

LC_TIME=

LC_COLLATE=

LC_MONETARY=

LC_MESSAGES=

LC_ALL=

root@host2:~#

how the text install does it

root@solaris2:~# nlsadm get-system-locale

LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

LC_CTYPE=

LC_NUMERIC=

LC_TIME=

LC_COLLATE=

LC_MONETARY=

LC_MESSAGES=

LC_ALL=

root@solaris2:~# locale

LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_TIME="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO8859-1"

LC_ALL=

root@solaris2:~#