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Old 08-17-2009, 08:47 AM   #1
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help me to change the character set


dears
i am using solaris 10
i am facing a problem when i make setup for solaris i choose the country egypt and i select the language north america
but i forget to do that the i found the date Jun written in arabic
i want to change character set to written in english

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5509351 Jun 1 18:40 file.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76498 Jun 2 17:35 file_name1.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1438 Jun 15 04:57 file.sh
 
Old 08-17-2009, 09:40 AM   #2
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Try this:
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LC_ALL=C # or LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 to preserve UTF encoding handling.
export LC_ALL
 
Old 08-18-2009, 04:02 AM   #3
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thanks for your effort helping me
LC_ALL=C
what is the meaninf of the C

i am chaning this value LC_TIME=C in my login .profile script

but i want to know what is the meaning of C

and every thing is working will
 
Old 08-18-2009, 04:20 AM   #4
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C has the same meaning as it has in the programming C language. Take it as POSIX conformant locale.
 
Old 08-18-2009, 06:43 AM   #5
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thanks jlliagre for this explain
 
  


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