On Wednesday 15. August 2007, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
>> At least on a *nix system, collation is based on the value of the
>> LC_ALL environment variable at dbinit time. There's nothing you can
>> do about it in a live database. IMO that's a little awkward, and is
>> what finally made me change the global from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on
>> my three Gentoo Linux machines.
>
>This is great info, thanks. Could you let me know how I could change
>the global values of "LC_ALL"? I am on Linux too, just CentOS, but I
>suppose it should be the same or similar?
I don't have the foggiest idea how it's done in CentOS. In Gentoo, you
just edit the contents of /etc/env.d/02locale:
balapapa ~ # cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LC_ALL="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LANG=""
LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_TIME="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_PAPER="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_NAME="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.UTF.8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.UTF.8"
To update the environment settings globally, the Gentoo method is to
issue the command
"env-update && source /etc/profile"
from root. But you should really Read The Fine Manual about this. If you
for instance have filenames with non-ASCII characters in them, prepare
yourself for some interesting challenges.
--
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