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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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in Ubuntu, what is the difference between en_US:utf8 and en_US: when setting LANGUAGE

related question: For setting locale in Ubuntu, what does the LANGUAGE environment variable mean? for setting locale my existing Ubuntu 12.04 server has LANGUAGE as en_US: And I can set it to en_US:utf8 as well. What is the difference ? existing…
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reset locale in debian under Squeeze

I have problems with locale in debian. I tried many thing but it doesn't anything for me : locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory C POSIX en_US.utf8 I try to set en_US.utf8 without success with this…
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Change locale in CentOS 6.3

I want to change locale in CentOs 6.3 to English. But after changing, only root account have English interface... Another user still have Russian interface. But I changed locale to: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" inside…
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Detecting TLD for localization

I have many TLD's for my domain, for US users it's .COM, for German users it's .DE, etc. I redirect them all to the .COM domain using CNAME records. The reason is to prevent getting a penalty from Google for duplicate content. Is there a way to…
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Linux CentOs 2.6.18 Setting locale for cronjobs

I have the problem, that I am trying to automate some Informix database job via the crontab. The job runs fine when done via the command line or processed via the at queue, but not via the crontab. The informix error "-23191 Unable to load locale…
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Tomcat not retrieving files with accents after restart

A few days ago I had a problem with an application running on Tomcat, it wasn't able to find files in the filesystem containing accents in the name (like, for example, "reportsandonà.pdf"). I discovered that it was a "locale" problem and i solved…
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debian 6 language change system error

perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = "ru_UA.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to…
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SQL Server not liking dates in YYYY-MM-DD format

Is there a setting in SQL Server which will persuade it to accept 'yyyy-mm-dd' style dates in a query. Got queries which are running fine on most of our SQL servers one box running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer doesn't like them. This is the…
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sudo logs date with user's locale, apparently. How do I make it use "C" locale?

I have sudo set to log to /var/log/sudo.log. I've noticed that when the locale was set to "de_DE.UTF-8", it logged a localized date ("Mär" for "März") instead of "C" locale ("Mar" for "March"). How do I make it log the date independent of the…
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locale setting for rhel7/8

In RHEL7/8 I know we control the locale setting using localctl command and which updates the /etc/locale.conf file. Ex : # localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.utf8 # localectl set-keymap jp106 # localectl System Locale: LANG=ja_JP.utf8 VC…
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I can't install locales due to varnish cache

We're having locale issues on a server, but if I am to install locales it will uninstall varnish. It's Debian 8 and a test system, so nothing in production will be affected. Is there a way to install locales without uninstalling varnish, or are…
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non interactive shell locale

I'm running commands on a remote host via ssh where i'd like to have locale vars set. I do not care about the full profile scripts from a true interactive shell, just the locale vars. The minimum test is to have ssh remotehost locale to output…
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How can I know where my server is located (physically speaking)?

I would like to know where my server is physically based. Is there tools that are available to get this informations (latitude/longitude) from command line (GNU/Linux) ?
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Benefit of data locality

What are the benefits of having a server in a country X for users in X to download data from rather than having the users in X download from a server in country Y? Can you please provide sources of your information? Academic publications preferred.…
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Unable to find localedef command on centos6

I am on CentOS 6.5 and I am unable to find localedef. I searched on /usr/bin but Ican't find it I don't also know if it comes in a package, i have searched on google and found nothing.
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