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20050203 Thursday February 03, 2005

What's new in S10 wrt G11N EMEA locales? Following are some more new EMEA G11N-related features for S10: Also from "docs.sun.com":http://docs.sun.com. .. "Solaris 10 : What's New":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547 and "G11N-related":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmi?a=view new features on docs.sun.com ( Feb 03 2005, 10:56:02 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050131 Monday January 31, 2005

[Basic] Language Vs Locale There has always been confusion between language and locale. Language : It's a system of gestures, sounds, symbols, or words used for communication i.e. French, English, Chinese etc... Locale : Definition of language and country settings for a system. This would include time, date, currency, special characters, numbers. It general has the following formation : language_country[.codeset][@modifier] Examples * en_IE (English_Ireland) :: Also known as Irish locale. Tuesday February 1 10:56:24 GMT 2005 * de_CH (German_Switzerland) :: Also known as German-Swiss locale. Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005, 10:56:24 Uhr GMT * en_US (English_America) :: Also known as Amercian locale. Tue Feb 1 16:25:26 GMT 2005 ( Jan 31 2005, 05:07:07 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050125 Tuesday January 25, 2005

Add/Remove locales after Solaris installation This would be more "Solaris 9 Update Release":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5770/6ml72d6kg?a=view and "Solaris 10":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/solaris/reference/docs/solaris_10_express_i18n_features.html specific. Adding locales after a Solaris install means the admin would need to have knowledge of "what locales" and "what packages" associated to install in order for an additional locale to work. G11N developed this utility to make life a little bit easier. :) With Locale Administrator, this will help eliminate this, all you need to do is supply the command line tool (localeadm) with : * Location of image media * Locale (en_IE.ISO8859-1) or region (weu) Follow the instructions and you will end up with a system updated with the new locale/region. See "localeadm":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kq69?a=view (1M) for more information. (I'll probably update more on this little utility in the near future.) **Other References** * (From Solaris G11N) "Adding locales in Solaris 9":http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/techtips/sol9_locale_pkgs/index.html. * (From Solaris G11N) "Solaris Locales FAQ":http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/faq/locale.html * You can even "ask a G11N expert while you are at Solaris G11N site":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/solaris/index.html ! :) ( Jan 25 2005, 03:52:40 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]