Questions tagged [localization]

In IT, localization refers to the settings/configurations that are altered to make a product (usually software) appropriate for different locales. Language, timezones and the formatting of things like currency or dates are common examples of such settings.

In IT, localization refers to the settings/configurations that are altered to make a product (usually software) appropriate for different locales. Language, timezones and the formatting of things like currency or dates are common examples of such settings.

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How do I set locale when building an Ubuntu Docker image with Packer?

I'm using Packer to build a Docker image based on Ubuntu 14.04, i.e., in my Packer template I have: "builders": [{ "type": "docker", "image": "ubuntu", "commit": true }], and I build it using: $ packer build my.json What do I need to…
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SSH locale wrong

I have a debian server with locales set to hu_HU.UTF-8, and if i log in trough console it works perfectly in hungarian. It also worked with ssh logins until i disabled PAM in the sshd config. Since then when i log in trough ssh the locales are set…
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Localizing an ownCloud theme

Is it possible to localize a file that is overridden by a custom theme in ownCloud? According to this issue in the bugtracker you can override theme files by just placing them in your own theme folder and editing them. In the case of the email…
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Kerberos credentials cache dates reported differently in Debian Squeeze and Debian Wheezy

I have two Debian servers which use same LDAP/Kerberos server, but dates in output of klist on them shown in different format - mm/dd/yyyy on squeeze vs dd/mm/yy on wheezy. Looks like they just use different locate setting for the short date format,…
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How to avoid Tivoli Storage Manager error ANS4042E: "Object name ... contains unrecognised characters and is not valid."

We are using the Tivoli TSM Backup/Archive client to back up user files on a largish multi-user system. Users come from different countries and thus can create files according to multiple locales. However, the Tivoli dmsc client insists that all…
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Centos 5.8 locale warning

A friend is running CentOS 5.8 on his server. It's a mostly harmless error but I'm tired of seeing it. I'm more familiar with debian, so I'm not sure how to generate or reconfigure locales. The usual binaries (locale-gen, dpkg, etc. ) I'm used to…
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RSYNC from remote to local excluding folders

How can I download from a remote server to local excluding folders or files? I have used something like this but the exclude doesn't work... rsync -avr -P -e ssh --exclude=/path/to/exclude/* user@ipaddress:/home/path/to/copy…
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How to set locale in Debian 6.0.3?

How to set locale in Debian 6.0.3? $…
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Japanese Windows Server 2008 R2?

I'm trying to provide a Japanese installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 to a user for localization testing. I've done this before with Windows XP which seemed to have a Japanese specific disc. I can't find a similar method for installing a Japanese…
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Locale setting on a Red Hat box

Recently our organization got a couple of server boxes which are I guess present in some data-center in UK. The problem is that for some reason the default Locale representation in Java on that server returns en_US instead of the expected en_GB (I…
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CentOS 7 warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (fr_FR.UTF-8)

I have this error when log in into a remote server throught ssh. The error also when I run a bash script. I tried to reinstall glib with yum reinstall glibc-common but the error is still here.
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Backport locale to earlier Windows version

I have written an application which contains language files localized in ru-MD (Russian as used in Moldova) and ru-RU (Russian as used in Russia). According to this table, the locale ru-MD is supported in Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 and above. I,…
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Force Locale in Windows Services

I have some windows services running on an Windows 2008R2 server. My system locale on that server is English (US). Is there any way you can force a windows services to use a specific locale (without changing the system locale)? For example, services…
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msinfo32 /nfo emits XML with translated tags

I'm working on some system data collection tools for an application I'm involved in supporting, and have run into an exciting wrinkle. I wanted to capture an msinfo32 /nfo report as part of the collected data, since it's so comprehensive. But…
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Change filename format for Nagios archived logs to use different date format?

I have just set up a Nagios server, and by default it keeps archives of the log messages in /var/log/nagios3/archives. However the files are named with US style date format, like nagios-04-14-2015-00.log, for a log file for 14th April 2015. Is there…
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