Installing Additional Locales and Troubleshooting locale in Solaris 11

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:

Language	Core locale
Chinese - Simplified	zh_CN.UTF-8
Chinese - Traditional	zh_TW.UTF-8
English	en_US.UTF-8
French	fr_FR.UTF-8
German	de_DE.UTF-8
Italian	it_IT.UTF-8
Japanese	ja_JP.UTF-8
Korean	ko_KR.UTF-8
Portuguese - Brazilian	pt_BR.UTF-8
Spanish	es_ES.UTF-8

Time Formats:

International Time Formats

Locale Description Time Format C - 23:59:00 en_US.UTF-8 English, U.S.A. 11:59:00 PM es_US.UTF-8 Spanish, U.S.A. 11:59:00 p.m. mr_IN.UTF-8 Marathi, India 11-59-00 pm sq_AL.ISO8859-2 Albanian, Albania 11.59.00.MD ja_JP.UTF-8 Japanese, Japan 23時59分00秒 ko_KR.UTF-8 Korean, Korea 오후11시 59분 00초 zh_CN.UTF-8 Simplified Chinese, China 23时59分00秒

Date Formats:

International Date Formats

Locale Description Date Format C - 07/16/11 en_CA.UTF-8 English, Canada 7/11/16 en_GB.UTF-8 English, United Kingdom 7/16/11 fi_FI.UTF-8 Finnish, Finland 7/16/11 ja_JP.UTF-8 Japanese, Japan 2011年07月16日 ko_KR.UTF-8 Korean, Korea 11. 07. 16. zh_TW.UTF-8 Traditional Chinese, Taiwan 11年07月16日

Money Formats:

 International Monetary Conventions

Locale Currency Example C - 1234.56 da_DK.UTF-8 Danish krone (kr) 1.234,56kr da_DK.ISO8859-15@euro Euro (€) 1.234,56€ en_GB.UTF-8 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 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~