Interfacing With the Simplified Chinese Solaris Localization Facility

At the C shell level, each environment variable can be set to locale (C for ASCII, zh for Simplified Chinese in EUC, zh.GBK for Simplified Chinese in GBK or zh.UTF-8 for Simplified Chinese in Unicode) by a shell command as follows:

C shell users can enter a shell command as follows:

system% setenv LC_TIME locale 

Bourne shell (sh) users can use set or export:

$ set -a LC_TIME
$ LC_TIME=locale 

or

$ LC_TIME=locale
$ export LC_TIME 

Making zh or zh.GBK the locale allows the user's environment to display time in Simplified Chinese format and text. A user can define a mix of locales for the working environment. For example, characters can be typed and converted in Simplified Chinese, time can be displayed in French format, and messages can appear in English.

Many users work in a single cultural environment. The LC_ALL and LANG environment variables set the system default for all categories. For example, these C shell commands set the system default for all categories to locale.

system% setenv LC_All locale
system% setenv LANG locale 

System administrators or users can set the default and the setenv syntax can be used in programming.

This setting is put into effect the next time a setlocale() function call in an application program line sets a category to the default setting: setlocale()(LC_XXX "")