Locale Environment Variable

To use the en_US.UTF-8 locale environment, make sure to choose the locale first. Be sure you have the en_US.UTF-8 locale installed on your system.

To use the en_US.UTF-8 locale environment

1. In a TTY environment, choose the locale first, by setting the LANG environment variable to en_US.UTF-8, as in the following C-shell example:

   system% setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8

2. Make sure that other categories are not set (or are set to en_US.UTF-8) since the LANG environment variable has a lower priority than other environment variables such as LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_NUMERIC, LC_MONETARY and LC_TIME at setting the locale. See the setlocale(3C) man page for more details about the hierarchy of environment variables.

3. To check current locale settings in various categories, use the locale(1) utility. locale(1)

system% locale 
			LANG=en_US.UTF-8
			LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
			LC_ALL=

You can also start the en_US.UTF-8 environment from the CDE desktop. At the CDE login screen's Options -> Language menu, choose en_US.UTF-8.