TZ=America/Montreal TZ looks like a Solaris timezone setting - for Montreal CA
LC_COLLATE= collation (sort sequence) of alphabetic characters
LC_CTYPE=character classification and capitalization
LC_MESSAGES=message catalgoue - select language for messages
LC_MONETARY=format of money like British pound sign versus $ sign
LC_NUMERIC=radix character etc for numbers
LC_TIME=date & time - day & month names + whether Sunday or Monday is first day of week
LC_ALL- if you set this to one value ("en_CA.ISO8859-1" is a good choice to start) all of the above take on that value.
en_CA.ISO8859-1 == englsih candian with character set ISO8559-1 (latin charset)
try
if you really want to know what is going on
with locale definitions.
I have noticed a significate decrease in spam by prodmail filtering on the language character sets that I don't read.
Nothing against our fine friends in Japan, China, Korea and all over the world who use different languages, but I now find that over 50% of my mountains of spam daily is... (1 Reply)
Hi,
We have problems with the latin 2 Character-set with xterm.
We have installed SunRay-Server with Solaris 8. Our Thinclients use hu- and cz-keyboards. I have set the right local-settings and xmodemaps. If I use the dtterm all is running fine. As soon as I use the xterm, it cannot display... (0 Replies)
hi ,
i am trying to work on a script that transforms some special Dutch characters and send them to a Xerox printer ..
the problem is that while doing so iam unable to identify th correct character set that is used by solaris , to transfer these characcters to Xerox character set .
thanks... (2 Replies)
I am forced to use the ANSEL character set for some GEDCOM documents but must convert them to a more modern set for another app which doesn't recognize ANSEL. I am unable to locate an ISO code for ANSEL in a search of the web. Would someone plese identify the ANSEL character set from the list given... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Could anybody explain how to change the character set of a particular string in C in unix. we are using HP-UX as OS. We require to change the input string which is in cp1250 format to utf-8.
A sample code would help. Thnx in advance (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm trying to edit a file with vi, but all special characters (áéíóú etc) don't seem to show correctly. They don't seem to be supported by the OS (SunOS 5.10).
I'm using MobaXterm as the terminal emulator, which is configured to use ISO-8859-1. The same charset is used on Solaris.
If I open... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I created the following (snippet from larger code):
echo -n "A1: "
read A1
VERIFY=$(echo -n $A1|wc -c)
if ; then
echo -e "TOO MANY CHARACTERS"
fi
echo -n "A2: "
read A2
echo -n "A3: "
read A3
echo -e "Concat: $B1/$B2/$B3"
Basically what it does is it... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm facing issue while opening xls file while contains Russian/Siberian character
I tried various options which I could get from google but still issue persists hence thought of taking help here,
We are trying to export data from Oracle via shell script using sqlplus utility. After... (8 Replies)
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install-solaris
install-solaris(1M)install-solaris(1M)NAME
install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
install-solaris
install-solaris invokes the Solaris Install program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.
The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:
For SPARC machines:
128 MB
Minimum physical memory for all installation types
128 MB
Minimum physical memory required for windowing system
384 MB
Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation
For x86 machines:
256 MB
Minimum physical memory for all installation types
256 MB
Minimum physical memory required for windowing system
512 MB
Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation
In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number of fea-
tures available.
install-solaris exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the for more
details.
install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
installation media. Refer to the for disk space requirements.
Refer to the for more information on the various menus and selections.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- |
| |lation media) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)
It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.
23 Sep 2005 install-solaris(1M)