LANG settings

r_213 · 01-13-2005, 01:36 AM

Can anybody tell me how to set LANG variable globally?

bathory · 01-13-2005, 02:00 AM

Edit /etc/profile and add a line:
export LANG=...

r_213 · 01-13-2005, 02:50 AM

Hey thanks for the response.

Can you tell me what this file means then /etc/sysconfig/i18n

What is the difference between the two.

bathory · 01-13-2005, 03:08 AM

I don't know what is the usage of /etc/sysconfig/i18n, because I guess it's distro specific and my distro (Slackware) does not have it. All I know is that i18n is the Internationalization Project. There is also a directory named i18n where the various locales and font settings for each locale are defined.
Also in /etc/profile you define a variable you want to set globally.

Regards

r_213 · 01-13-2005, 03:26 AM

I changed the LANG setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and rebooted by Linux box. This time I got the LANG settings as intended . I changed it from English to japanese( en_US.UTF-8 to ja_JP.sjis) .But when i run a shell script it gives the output in English. When I run some other command in the shell it comes in japanese.
Any idea why it occurs?