HP-UX

Hi all,


We are facing the following problem in our HP-UX machine: software that manipulates utf-8 encoded strings (e.g. during string cut), fails to correctly manipulate strings (all containing Greek characters) that contain special characters like @, &, # etc. Actually, in different environments it behaves differently. In other unix environment it seems not having any problem but in fails in our environment which is

/usr/sbin/sizer -v
Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885); Mon Apr 9 15:44:05 EEST 2007


Thanks in advance for any help
Alina

This sounds like a locale issue. I understand what HPUX does, but I do not know much Tru64 and locale. If you review the localeconv, localedef, langinfo, and NLS man pages for HPUX it has information on how to construct a "locale". When you build a locale, one of the things that is defined is what characters are punctuation. Offhand I would guess the locales you are using has a definition problem. IF you need portabilty between your environments you have to find or define matching locale defintions for each environment

Actually not only cut but also every unix tool and library calls like strftime() will do odd things under a poorly set up locale.

The list of supported locales of Tru64 UNIX is documented in the l10n_intro.5 man page. The following Greek locales are supported on Tru64 UNIX V5.1A: el_GR.ISO8859-7
el_GR.ISO8859-7@ucs4 and el_GR.UTF-8.

What is the ouput when you run the locale utility i.e. 'locale'?

Do you see these locales when you run 'locale -a'?

Hi All,

We have solved the problem by including the following line into user's .profile file:

export LANG=universal.UTF-8


After that, all software worked as expected. I think if we try also other codesets like the ones proposed by you, it would work too.

Many thanks for your help !