Use the setlocale command to change the locale setting for the
clustered system (system). It also changes command output to the chosen language.
Syntax
setlocale -locale locale_id
Parameters
- -localelocale_id
- Specifies the locale ID. The value must be a numeric
value depending on the desired language (as indicated below)
Description
This command changes the language in which error messages are displayed as output from the
command-line interface. Subsequently, all error messages from the command-line tools are generated
in the chosen language. This command is run when you request a change of language (locale).
Specify the
setlocale command to change the locale setting for the system; all
interface output is changed to the chosen language. For example, to change the language to Japanese,
type the following:
setlocale -locale 3
where
3
is the value for Japanese. The following values are supported:
- 0 US English (default)
- 1 Simplified Chinese
- 2 Traditional Chinese
- 3 Japanese
- 4 French
- 5 German
- 6 Italian
- 7 Spanish
- 8 Korean
- 9 Portuguese (Brazilian)
- 10 Russian
An invocation example (where 3 is
Japanese)
setlocale -locale 3
The
resulting output:
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An invocation example (where 8 is
Korean)
setlocale -locale 8
The resulting
output:
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