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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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How to make results of "localedef" survive "dpkg-reconfigure locales"?

Im using UB 16.04 LTS Server and yesterday a new version of the locales-package has been released and installed: Start-Date: 2019-02-21 09:44:05 Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold…
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National characters in Open Tomato router and QNAP NAS shell

I added my Country locale (pl_PL) to shell in Open Tomato based router Asus and QNAP NAS. Originally only en_US and en_EN locale where available. Now it is possible to use it for example in vim-full editor, installed from Entware-ng. So now both on…
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Korean Characters in Outlook lose their encoding

A user in our Korean Office has issue with the encoding of the characters in their emails. When sending or receiving, everything is displayed fine the first time. When re-opening an email later, the Korean characters are shown garbled with lots of…
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Centos Postgres Failed to start

I have CentOs 6.7 installed on my server: bash-4.1# uname -r 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64 After server restart, my PostgreSQL 9.6 server is not starting due to locale issue. Here is the log error message: pgstartup.log < 2017-01-26 16:33:08.115 IST >…
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Setting locale for current session

I would like to change LC_MESSAGES locale var for current session like so: LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.utf8" but it seems to not work: user@debian:~$ cat w1.txt cat: w1.txt: Brak dostępu user@debian:~$ LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.utf8" user@debian:~$ cat w1.txt…
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Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude

I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages. Andre
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Adapt translation of "available" for Outlook Calendar system wide, e.g. via Exchange Server?

I want to change a single string (translation/resource) in the Outlook Calendar. The default Calendar-status "available" in Dutch is called "vrij" by Outlook. The Outlook usage would translate as "available", but usually "vrij" in Dutch is used as…
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How to "unlocalize" bash script output

I have a problem with localized bash output. Say, I have to run some script on two different machines and then compare its output. It could of be done with grep easily, but one of the machines is localized to give bash output in russian. So "Apr"…
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For setting locale in Ubuntu, what does the LANGUAGE environment variable mean?

For setting locale in Ubuntu, what does the LANGUAGE environment variable mean? It is not defined in Ubuntu Community Docs or on man 1 locale. Related question: In Ubuntu, what is the difference between en_US:utf8 and en_US: when setting LANGUAGE
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Locale number formatting issue windows 2008

On a project we have multiple servers running windows 2008. The servers are using the Russian locale. We have several programs that use floating point numbers but the fractional part of the number on SOME servers is getting truncated. Through the…
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What do I need to do to get Windows 7 running in German?

Is it as simple as selecting a language while installing the OS? Download a language pack through Windows Updates? Do I need a specific download for Windows in German? I've never dealt with foreign language OS's so this may be a bit of a simple…
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reverse proxy and caching for a website

I come from Europe and in my country there are really expensive webservers, so i have my VPS server in the USA. Now i need on one hand a website with local IP and on other hand fast webserver. So i am paying 90$ in the USA for 2gb/4gb ram VPS,…
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Additional display languages on Windows Server 2008 R2: Error while installing

I am running a Windows Server 2008 R2. I would like to install italian as another display language, so I downloaded the Multilingual User Interface iso file with a lot of locale packages included. However, when I try to install the language pack…
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Changing default system locale on CentOS 5

I'm running a CentOS 5 server and the current default locale seems to be always set…
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Setting Linux time zone

Should /etc/localtime (under RHEL 5.3, not that I think it matters) be: a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever a hard link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever I'd prefer 1) because it's explicit and easy to…
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