Introduction

You may encounter messages like “couldn’t set locale correctly” which can quickly become annoying to see in the display.

Problem Explanation

This occurs because the locales installed on the machine do not match those in your shell’s environment variables.

To see what you have in your shell:

  > env

And to see what’s available on the system, it’s just as simple:

  > ls /usr/lib/locale
C

Solution

For my part, I live in France, so I need the locales for my country. I’m going to install the Western European locales. For this, you’ll need the Solaris DVD in the drive:

  cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_10/Product/
pkgadd -d . SUNWweuos

Now it’s good, there will be no more error messages.

To change Solaris locales at the system level, edit the /etc/default/init file and adapt according to your needs:

  TZ=Europe/Paris
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=fr
LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=fr
LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=fr_FR.ISO8859-15

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Last updated 08 Feb 2010, 16:22 +0200. history