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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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Addressing built-in groups and local policies in Windows independently of localized names

Recently I saw an application failing to do certain check/manipulation with built-in groups/local policies on localized version of Windows Server 2012 R2 (French, German). In localized versions of Windows group names and policy names are translated…
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How do I fix my locale settings on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my linode?

My Dropbox installation on my linode is failing with the error: ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 When I run : locale I get the output: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default…
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Server locale C vs en_US.UTF-8

I am considering to change all of my server locale to C by "export LC_ALL=C" Is it a common practice? I am thinking will there be any side effect on a LAMP server, or should I just leave as using the default of "en_US.UTF-8"?
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preseeding locales in debian

I am trying to use debconf to preseed the values for the locales package in Debian squeeze, so that I can reconfigure it non-interactively to, e.g., generate all locales. I extract the right selection from a working system using…
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How to change my commandline locale after CentOS decided to change it?

So apparently, CentOS decided I was Dutch, and thus, should not have a English locale. Apart from the fact that this greatly bothers me, I am having a pretty hard time actually changing it back. There does not seem to be a setlocale function, and…
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IIS Time Zone and daylight saving changes

How can I determine Time Zone setting for IIS. It seems that ever since the daylight savings were applied (+1 hour) the time returned by IIS is 1 hour behind as the +1 was ignored. The time on the server itself is correct, but when the application…
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IIS 7.5 using Classic ASP converts a boolean value to a string in the local language

I have a Classic ASP application running on a workstation with a Danish version of Windows 7 with IIS 7.5. The problem: When the application writes a boolean as a string, it will write "True" or "False" on an English server. However, on my Danish…
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Windows 7 Shortdate Format Ignored

I am moving a copy of an ASP.net web application running on a windows server 2003 box to a Windows 7 Laptop. On the win server 2003 box the locale was set to United States and shortdate format was M/DD/YYYY. On the Windows 7 machine it is DD/MM/YYYY…
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Regenerating /usr/share/locale/

Is there a way to regenerate deleted locale on /usr/share/locale without downloading the application again?
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Is it possible to have localised Windows user names?

Is it possible to have localised Windows user names?
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Windows 10 - Scripting setting: "Use Previous Version of Microsoft IME"?

We're deploying a fleet of full screen browser based kiosks on Win10. They need to have multilanguage functionality. I've managed to script most of the setup, but there's an annoying problem: The new version of the Chinese and Japanese IMEs only…
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Custom calendar system support in Exchange OWA

Since Exchange doesn't provide support for all calendar types in OWA, I need to create one, using Microsoft.Net's support of calendars, but where should I start?
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Changed locale in CentOS 7 using localectl doesn't work

I want to change the localisation to en_US.utf8 so that all log messages from applications were displayed in english. This works when I prefix the command with LANG=en_US.utf ./my-command, now every output of ./my-command is english. localectl…
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Google Cloud SQL. Sorting in THAI in mysql

We have an application where we use Google Cloud SQL (mysql) as database server. The databases are in the collation: utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci A user of the application from Thailand reported that their content appears in wrong ordering and…
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Strange set locale behaviour when ssh from Windows PuTTY to Linux

Please, can someone shed some light on this strange locales related warning annoying me since I installed my server half year ago. It's a variant of "Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale", which seems to be a pretty common issue, but mine has a…
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