Can't really help with the Java stuff but I can comment that I have a couple of Java applications that work "best" with Oracle Java -- I install the JDK version (which includes JRE) using the Java build in the
/exta directory. I've tried Open Java, didn't work, went back to Oracle and no problems. The SlackBuild installs all the stuff in
/etc for it.
Other applications, specifically some data base things, need UTF-8.
You edit
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh like this:
Code:
cat lang.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Set the system locale. (no, we don't have a menu for this ;-)
# For a list of locales which are supported by this machine, type:
# locale -a
# en_US is the Slackware default locale:
#export LANG=en_US
# 'C' is the old Slackware (and UNIX) default, which is 127-bit
# ASCII with a charmap setting of ANSI_X3.4-1968. These days,
# it's better to use en_US or another modern $LANG setting to
# support extended character sets.
#export LANG=C
# There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that
# some programs may possibly misbehave under UTF-8. In those
# cases, you can set LANG=C before starting them. Note that
# there are some UTF-8 locales that do not contain UTF-8 or
# utf8 in the locale name, so to test if a locale is UTF-8,
# use this command:
#
# LANG=<locale> locale -k charmap
#
# UTF-8 locales will include "UTF-8" in the output.
#
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# Another option for en_US:
#export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
# One side effect of the newer locales is that the sort order
# is no longer according to ASCII values, so the sort order will
# change in many places. Since this isn't usually expected and
# can break scripts, we'll stick with traditional ASCII sorting.
# If you'd prefer the sort algorithm that goes with your $LANG
# setting, comment this out.
export LC_COLLATE=C
# End of /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
and you're good to go but you need to stop your window manager, log out, log back in, startx. Then run
Code:
locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
You do want to change the "us" to "pl" (I think that's the code for Poland). It won't hurt anything that you've set the locale to UTF-8, pretty much everything works with a couple of old things that don't like it. When you set locale, you set it system-wide so you're not setting it dynamically.
Hope this helps some.
