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Old 03-12-2012
LC_ALL & LANG are set OK, but others couldn't set locale correctly.
Hi,

I have a Solaris (SunOS 5.10) installed, by default with the en_AU.UTF-8 locale. I want to change it to en_US.UTF-8

With AU, I have no issues whatsoever, so I installed the language package and now locale -a shows "en_US.UTF-8".

Problem is even with LC_ALL set in etc/default/init, the others LC_* default to "C" after a reboot and throw up the "couldn't set locale correctly" error. I've added each LC_* manually to the init file but get the same result so I've removed those.

Below are some outputs I'm getting. Tried everything I can think of/google. Smilie
Code:
 # locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8


# vi init
"init" [Read only] 21 lines, 741 characters 
#
# Copyright 1992, 1999-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
#ident  "@(#)init.dfl   1.7     02/12/03 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init.  /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not.  To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.  value may
# be enclosed in double quotes (") or single quotes (').
#
TZ=Australia/NSW
CMASK=022
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8";
LANG="en_US.UTF-8";


#localeadm -q en_US.UTF-8
couldn't set locale correctly

locale/region name is en_us

Warning! You have chosen the en_US.UTF-8 locale rather than a region to check.
This locale is part of the North America region. If you choose to continue, this region will be checked.

Do you wish to continue? [y/n]: y
Checking for North America region (nam)
(c_solaris packages)
|...|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(solaris1 packages)
|.......................|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(solaris2 packages)
|.........|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(solaris3 packages)
|.|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(solaris4 packages)
|Checking for North America region (nam)
(solaris5 packages)
|.....|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(langcd1 packages)
|....................................................................................................|

All packages found.

Checking for North America region (nam)
(langcd2 packages)
|The North America region (nam) is installed on this system

locale -a shows en_US.UTF-8 as present.

I'm new to Solaris/Unix so try to keep answers simple and step by step. Any help would be appreciated !
Last edited by pludi; 03-12-2012 at 06:14 AM..
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Old 03-12-2012
you better to set our locale ...... time zone.
# 3  
Old 03-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by coolboys
you better to set our locale ...... time zone.
Hey I'm not sure I understand your response. Can you elaborate?

If you mean just leave it as AU, I need the US locale as something I'm installing has it as a pre-requisite and won't install on any other locale set unfortunately Smilie
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