[oskare100]

Hello,
I've worked a lot to get my server working but now I discovered that I choose wrong language support when I installed CentOS 5. It works in HTTPD to set the default charset to UFT-8 but when I try to use PHP functions as ucwords() and when I try to phrase XML it doesn't work as it should so I need to set the locale? or language? to the default one for Swedish so I can use the Swedish å,ä and ö letters.

I've tried with:
localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE
export LC_ALL=sv_SE
export LANG=sv
and similar but it doesn't work.

So please, I'm greatful for anything that could help me solve this.

Thanks,
Oskar

[lotuseclat79]

Just a thought, in your post, the LANG=sv did not match sv_SE.

Also, issue the $ locale command with no parameters to see the full list of output.

In my output LANG="en_US.UTF-8" and I'm wondering whether yours should be something like: LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"

-- Tom

[oskare100]

Hello,
My output is:
[root@localhost ~]# 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="en_US.UTF-8"
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=

And I believe that that is the problem, thanks.

/Oskar

[oskare100]

Hello again,
Here is what happends:
[root@localhost ~]# localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# shutdown -r now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 16 13:15:29 2007):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
login as: root
root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 16 13:11:38 2007 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
[root@localhost ~]# 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="en_US.UTF-8"
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=
[root@localhost ~]#

In other words, after restart it gets back to what it was before...

/Oskar

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Oskar,

Even though you are running CentOS, check out the section on "How to add locales to Ubuntu the command line way" in the Ubuntu (7.04) Fiesty Fawn Starter Guide.

You can probably throw the same commands (slightly revised for SE) to get what you need as there is not too much difference from Linux to Linux variants.

-- Tom

[oskare100]

Hello,
OK, the problem is that I need to change the default for the whole system and not just root...

/Oskar

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Oskar,

I am guessing here that there is a permission problem if the changes only applied to root.

Check the permissions on the files installed. One way to do this if the dpkg mechanism was used is to find the locales.list file in /var/lib/dpkg/info directory.

First, I would copy that file into your Desktop using the root account. Then edit out all of the directories - it should be easy to identify these by the pathnames.
Once you have only a list of files and no directories, issue the following command and output everything to a file:

$ ls -ldt `cat locales.list` > ls-ldt.txt

Then peruse the list for files that only have root access and issue the command:
$ sudo chmod +r filename
for each of them (a script should make short work of this).

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

One further thought, if the task of editing out the directorys from the locales.list is too daunting, then just leave them in and the command:
$ ls -ldt `cat locales.list` > ls-ldt.txt
will work without listing the directory contents and just give more output, but include the directory permissions as well.

-- Tom