Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90080, November 2013)

Each language has a corresponding locale (language variant), which describes the system
management of a language for doing the following:
• Messaging
• Representing numbers
• Displaying monetary values
• Telling time
• Generating characters
• Sorting text
Click Default Language... to see the Default Language Choices (Figure 58). They are listed in two
columns: Language and Locale. Each language may have more than one way of representing itself
on the system. If this is the case, there will be multiple locale entries for the same language.
Figure 58 Languages Dialog Box
The locale determines how languages are activated, and are reflected adjacent to Code Set:, as
follows:
• ASK_AT_FIRST_BOOT enables you to leave the language setting open (unset) until the client
system is first booted. At that time, you are prompted. The language setting will be performed
as part of the initial system configuration.
• SET_NULL_LOCALE creates a NULL language environment leaving the locale variables, such
as LANG and LC_ALL, unset by default. With no locale set, programs execute without using
localized message catalogs, which can increase system performance. All HP-UX programs
operate in the C locale and messages appear in English.
For information regarding other methods of setting the language environment, see geocustoms(1M)
and HP CDE Getting Started Guide.
Keyboards... Button
Click this button to select the type of keyboard to be used on the client. Otherwise, the default
selection is used.
The selected keyboard language name is stored in the /etc/kbdlang file. If you have incorrectly
set the language, you can quickly recover by removing this file.
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