Specifying the locale

Setting locales

A locale is a name used to refer to a group of settings that influence the behavior of the library routines used by programs to control the presentation of dates, currency, time, printable characters, and other data that vary between countries. By specifying a different locale, you can change the way programs present country-specific information. See the locale(C) manual page for more information.

NOTE: After you change a locale (by using the International Settings Manager or by setting the LANG environment variable), you must stop and restart the xmvtcld daemon. scoadmin clients will not recognize the new locale setting until you restart the server.

Locales are software-specific. Character mapping for hardware devices (such as terminals and printers) is handled by a separate set of programs. See ``Device mapping''.