[imp] locales in Solaris 8 (was: IMP 3.0: Problem with languages)

[Otto Stolz]

Leena Heino wrote:

> It would seem that only way to get locales working in Solaris 8 is:
> - You must install to the system the necessary locale directories and
>   libraries.

...

> - You must recompile .po files to make new .mo files.

One more hint (from "man -s 5 environ"):
| LANG is used  as  the default  locale if the corresponding
| environment variable for a particular category is unset or null.

This means that a "setenv LANG de_DE" may not have the desired
effect. Rather, you may have to setenv all those LC_ variables,
particularly  LC_CTYPE and  LC_MESSAGES. Alternatively, you can
try to set LC_ALL, which I haven't tested yet.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz