vi foreign characters 1

[Scunningham99]

hi all

i have o/s sun solaris 2.6 US american.

i have a file with french character such as the "è", example below:


DESCRIPTION = "Détails de l'imputation - Synthèse ou détail"

when i do a more on this file all is well, however when i dump it to printer or vi it all is pear shaped!!!

can anyone point me in the right direction.

do i need to install another character set, or something!!1

cheers in advance

sy

 

[cfsalmeida]

if you don't want to change your system locale from US/american, then you can export LC_ALL when needed:

# export LC_ALL=fr

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[Scunningham99]

cheers cfsalmeida

sorry to be ignorant, but am i assuming that you can only be in one state at any one time. ie either french character set, or US character set.

ps. when I echo LC_ALL, from root i am returning nothing as this is not in root environment. shoutd it be, or must it be installed first??????

sy

 

[cfsalmeida]

well, yes its possible that LC_ALL isn't setup by default,I only mention "LC_ALL" because it set everything, you can use only LC_CTYPE if you want and leave the rest alone, use locale command to check values:

# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=pt_PT.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=pt_PT.ISO8859-15
LC_COLLATE=pt_PT.ISO8859-15
LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_ALL=

also default locale is set in "/etc/default/init", don't forget to use other locale you need that locale package installed check for locale files in "/usr/lib/locale" directory.

Hope it helps,

Regards,
Carlos Almeida,

 

[Scunningham99]

thanks alot

i take it pt_PT.ISO8859-15 is the fr character set

 

[Scunningham99]

does this mean i can only have one character set at any one time?????

ie in state french or state us.

or can i set this in the profile for say a french user to be different than that of an us user

 

[cfsalmeida]

Well, "pt_PT.ISO8859-15" is mine (Portugal), it also should work with french characters, but the french one in Solaris 2.6 is "fr".

# LC_ALL=fr
# export LC_ALL
# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="fr"
LC_NUMERIC="fr"
LC_TIME="fr"
LC_COLLATE="fr"
LC_MONETARY="fr"
LC_MESSAGES="fr"
LC_ALL=fr
# éè

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[Scunningham99]

ok thank you!!!!

would it be possible to say have 2 users one french and one US. whereby user1 has LC_ALL=fr and user2 has LC_ALL=en

regards Simon

 

[cfsalmeida]

Yes, you can export "LC_ALL" or "LC_CTYPE", in e.g: user .profile, you only need check if the locale you are setting is installed by check "/usr/lib/locale".

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[Scunningham99]

Thanks Alot, you were a great help!!!

 

[Scunningham99]

ours ir set to

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

what is "C"

 

[cfsalmeida]

A value of "C" for locale specifies the traditional UNIX system behavior, in the "C" locale, or in a locale where the character type information is not defined, characters are classified according to the rules of the US-ASCII 7-bit coded character set, you can check what values are set with a current locale, i.e:

# LC_ALL=C
# export LC_ALL
# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_ALL=C

to check values afected by LC_TIME:

# locale -ck LC_TIME
LC_TIME
d_t_fmt="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
d_fmt="%m/%d/%y"
t_fmt="%H:%M:%S"
t_fmt_ampm="%I:%M:%S %p"
...
...
what afects what:
LC_CTYPE affects the behavior of character handling functions such as isdigit() and tolower(), and multibyte character functions such as mbtowc() and wctomb().
LC_NUMERIC affects the decimal point character and thousands separator character for the formatted input/output functions and string conversion functions.
LC_TIME affects the date and time format as delivered by ascftime(), cftime(), getdate(), and strftime().
LC_COLLATE affects the sort order produced by strcoll() and strxfrm().
LC_MONETARY affects the monetary formatted information returned by localeconv().
LC_MESSAGES affects the behavior of dgettext(), gettext(), and gettxt().

Hope it helps,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[Scunningham99]

Ahhhh....

All is now clear, thank you very much for your help on this........

We have now got it working with 2 users, set up the path in the users environment all fine.

Thanks Again

cfsalmeida