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Old 10-28-2012
Setting locales
I'm having a problem with my locale setting.

Quote:
-bash-3.2$ 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=
Essentially, when using Xmgrace or Awk, all . are replaced with ,
leading to wrong arithmetic.



Here is an explanation of the problem:
awk printing thousands with commas. see LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Quote:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Causes the awk printf to output numbers values greater than 999 with commas when using ' in the format string.
Note: unset LC_ALL will not add commas!
How can I permanently set the locale to

LANG=en_US
?????
# 2  
Old 10-28-2012
Code:
# in your .profile or .bashrc
export LANG=something

where "something" is one of:
Code:
locale -a

The reason I used "something" is because different unixes may show slightly different locale names. Plus locales are installed by the admin, so I may only have a few, whereas you may have dozens.
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