Installing Additional Locales and Troubleshooting locale in Solaris 11
About Internationalization and Localization, Internationalization and localization are different procedures.
Internationalization is the process of making software portable between languages or regions, Internationalized software can be developed using interfaces that modify program behavior at runtime in accordance with specific cultural requirements.
while localization is the process of adapting software for specific languages or regions.Localization includes adding language specific data, and translating user interfaces to a specific language.Localization involves establishing online information to support a language or region also called a locale.
C Locale : The C locale, also known as the POSIX locale, is the default system locale for all POSIX-compliant systems. The Oracle Solaris operating system is a POSIX system. The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, defines the C locale. You can register at http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html to read and download the specification.
Local Categories :
The following list describes the types of locale categories:
LC_CTYPE
Specifies character classification and case conversion.
LC_TIME
Specifies date and time formats, including month names, days of the week, and common full and abbreviated representations.
LC_MONETARY
Specifies monetary formats, including the currency symbol for the locale, thousands separator, sign position, the number of fractional digits, and so forth.
LC_NUMERIC
Specifies the decimal delimiter (or radix character), the thousands separator, and the grouping.
LC_COLLATE
Specifies a collation order and regular expression definition for the locale.
LC_MESSAGES
Specifies the language in which the localized messages are written, and affirmative and negative responses of the locale (yes and no strings and expressions).
LO_LTYPE
Specifies the layout engine that provides information about language rendering. Language rendering (or text rendering) depends on the shape and direction attributes of a script.
Core Locales:
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Language
|
Core locale
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Chinese - Simplified
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zh_CN.UTF-8
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Chinese - Traditional
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zh_TW.UTF-8
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English
|
en_US.UTF-8
|
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French
|
fr_FR.UTF-8
|
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German
|
de_DE.UTF-8
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Italian
|
it_IT.UTF-8
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Japanese
|
ja_JP.UTF-8
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Korean
|
ko_KR.UTF-8
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Portuguese - Brazilian
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pt_BR.UTF-8
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Spanish
|
es_ES.UTF-8
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Time Formats:
International Time Formats
|
Locale
|
Description
|
Time
Format
|
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C
|
-
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23:59:00
|
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en_US.UTF-8
|
English,
U.S.A.
|
11:59:00
PM
|
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es_US.UTF-8
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Spanish,
U.S.A.
|
11:59:00
p.m.
|
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mr_IN.UTF-8
|
Marathi,
India
|
11-59-00
pm
|
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sq_AL.ISO8859-2
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Albanian,
Albania
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11.59.00.MD
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ja_JP.UTF-8
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Japanese,
Japan
|
23時59分00秒
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ko_KR.UTF-8
|
Korean,
Korea
|
오후11시 59분 00초
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zh_CN.UTF-8
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Simplified
Chinese, China
|
23时59分00秒
|
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Date Formats:
International Date Formats
|
Locale
|
Description
|
Date
Format
|
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C
|
-
|
07/16/11
|
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en_CA.UTF-8
|
English,
Canada
|
7/11/16
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en_GB.UTF-8
|
English,
United Kingdom
|
7/16/11
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fi_FI.UTF-8
|
Finnish,
Finland
|
7/16/11
|
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ja_JP.UTF-8
|
Japanese,
Japan
|
2011年07月16日
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ko_KR.UTF-8
|
Korean,
Korea
|
11.
07. 16.
|
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zh_TW.UTF-8
|
Traditional
Chinese, Taiwan
|
11年07月16日
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Money Formats:
International Monetary
Conventions
|
Locale
|
Currency
|
Example
|
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C
|
-
|
1234.56
|
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da_DK.UTF-8
|
Danish
krone (kr)
|
1.234,56kr
|
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da_DK.ISO8859-15@euro
|
Euro
(€)
|
1.234,56€
|
|
en_GB.UTF-8
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Pound
(£)
|
£1,234.56
|
|
en_US.UTF-8
|
United
States dollar ($)
|
$1,234.56
|
|
fr_FR.UTF-8
|
Euro
(€)
|
1
234,56€
|
|
ja_JP.UTF-8
|
Japanese
yen (¥)
|
¥1,235
|
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th_TH.UTF-8
|
Thai
Baht (BHT)
|
THB1,234.56
|
|
zh_CN.UTF-8
|
Chinese
yuan (¥)
|
¥1,234.56
|
|
judi-dev-01 #
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = "",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.ISO8859-15",
LC_COLLATE = "en_GB.ISO8859-15",
LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.ISO8859-15",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.ISO8859-15",
LC_MESSAGES = "C",
LC_TIME = "en_GB.ISO8859-15",
LANG = "en_US.ISO8859-1"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.ISO8859-1").
judi-dev-01 #
Example-1 of installing en_GB locale using a combination of nlsadm and 'pkg install':
judi-dev-01 # pkg change-facet facet.locale.en_GB=True
--output omitted--
judi-dev-01 # locale -a | egrep en_GB
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro
en_GB.UTF-8
judi-dev-01 #
Example-2 of installing en_GB locale using a combination of nlsadm and 'pkg install':
judi-dev-01 #locale -a | egrep en_GB
judi-dev-01 #
judi-dev-01 #nlsadm list-locale -a | grep en_GB
Reading package information from IPS publisher's repository (it could take couple of minutes) ...
en_GB.ISO8859-15 en GB ISO8859-15 - -
en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro en GB ISO8859-15 euro -
en_GB.ISO8859-1 en GB ISO8859-1 - -
en_GB.UTF-8 en GB UTF-8 - -
judi-dev-01 #
judi-dev-01 # nlsadm list-locale -a | egrep en_GB
Reading package information from IPS publisher's repository (this may take awhile) ...
en_GB.ISO8859-1 en GB ISO8859-1 - il
en_GB.ISO8859-15 en GB ISO8859-15 - ilc
en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro en GB ISO8859-15 euro ils
en_GB.UTF-8 en GB UTF-8 - i
judi-dev-01 #
judi-dev-01 # nlsadm get-system-locale
LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_ALL=
judi-dev-01 #
judi-dev-01 # svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init listprop environment/LANG
judi-dev-01 # pkg change-facet facet.locale.en_GB=True
judi-dev-01 # svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init setprop environment/LANG = astring: en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro
judi-dev-01 # svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init listprop environment/LANG
~Judi~
