Infrastructure Software

Hello.

First of all:
The system's messages (e.g. when booting the machine or before powering off) are always in english as far as I know - you cannot change them.

To change the language for the system you must change the LC_* environment variables.

Example (german language):

...
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=de
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-1
...

You'll find all language packets installed as subdirectories in "/usr/lib/locale".

I do not know if there is a graphical interface or a tool to do this but you may edit the configuration files manually:

The variables are set in the file "/etc/default/init" for all users and can be overwritten in each user's ".profile" file (if different users use different languages).

Martin

And LANG variable? Do you have knowhow about this variable?

Before login solaris console, i choose the language from menu language to english or spanish. When i enter in solaris console, after to open the terminal, i see the LANG variable = C. Where's the correct place to change this variable in the operation system? I want to set this variable as spanish language. I want to change this remotely, because this, i wanna know where is the place to set this variable.

Thanks for the help.
Everton Thomaz