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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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Recommendation for locale on server: ISO (latin) or UTF-8

What is the recommended locale setting on a server that is used as an web and database server. Are there any drawbacks not using UTF-8 as default?
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Debian Squeeze locale settings

I have a problem with a slightly customised Debian image that I'm trying to do some headless work on. The problem is that the installed locales list has been reduced to this: C en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 POSIX However, when I…
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Problem with locales after git installation

Some days ago i tried to install git on my Debian system. The instalation aborted and since this moment i get a locales error everytime i try do install/remove something via apt -.- apt-get remove git Reading package lists... Done Building…
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Multiple websites within IIS running with different time zone settings

Is there a way to have multiple websites running within IIS that have different time zone information? For example: The local Windows Server is running in CST. I would like one website (application) that runs in CST and a second website…
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Informix "Database locale information mismatch"

I have informix 11.5 running in my Win-2003 box and few databases running in it. System databases have locale en_us.819 My custom databases have locale en_us.57372 (UTF8). There is also application deployed to JBoss 4.0.2 which has few datasources…
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How to fix locale settings in debian lenny (minimal)

I have a debian machine running remotely, i tried many ways to fix this locale issue, which is harmless while using apt-get though but because of it my web apps are not functioning properly. I have quick googled for the solution and found that…
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Oracle Database character set issue with the audit tables on Debian

I've got Oracle XE installed on Debian linux and the character set is configured to AL32UTF8. There are several client applications that connects to a database from Windows with the different locales - French etc, not English. That's ok with all the…
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Character encoding in sql server 2005

Where can I configure (if it's possible) how Sql Server 2005 "interprets" character encoding of string data sent trough TDS protocol (in this case from web application)? Maybe it would be better if I describe whole problematic situtation: when…
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Pandoc locale problems

I'm trying to generate documentation pdf file with pandoc's markdown2pdf. My source file contains some cyrillic UTF-8 symbols. My system locale is en_US.UTF-8. When run in default locale, markdown2pdf fails to load document: $ markdown2pdf doc.md…
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How to redirect to a given page depending on the user locale?

Is there a way to redirect an user depending on is browser locale ? For instance, I'd like to redirect to a page called index.en.html all users who doesn't have their browser locale set to French. Could I do this with Apache and .htaccess ?
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Problems with vim/locale as non-root user on Solaris

I do some work on a Solaris 10 machine, and my .vimrc is set up to show unicode characters for tabs and line endings: set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬ This works out of the box on my OS X machine. On Linux as well as Solaris I get the following error…
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How to change definition of windows locale?

Date format of cz-CS locale has been changed in Windows Server 2016 from d. M. yyyy to dd.MM.yyyy. Users of web applications however wanted to use d. M. yyyy from previous Windows version, since this format is commonly used. (This format is also…
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How do you script locale installation with CentOS?

We've been moving servers to EC2 lately and I ran into an issue recently involving locales. We use a script to build an AMI from scratch that is largely based on a simplified RightScale script. However, we recently worked on an international project…
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Debian Packets fix - locale not working - cant install packets - Librarys broken

I did something horrible and hopefully didnt destroy my Debian 9 Strech... I googled like 2 Hours to fix this but nothing has helped... What I Did: my ClamAV was outdated, and I added a testing source into /etc/apt/sources.list manually and typed…
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Different format of date is valid in query string on different VMs with the same regional settings

I deployed .NET application hosted on IIS on two different VMs with Windows Server 2016 on them, the code is exactly the same. However on one machine the date in query string 30/01/2018 is parsed properly on the other it caueses HTTP 500, on this…
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