Changing the default Solaris 11 locale
In Solaris 10 you had to edit the /etc/default/init file to chance the default locale, now with Solaris 11 it is defined in SMF:
To change the global system locale
- Using the
locale
command we can confirm what our current active global locale is set to:# 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=
- To change the locale we use the
svccfg
command. In this example, we will change the locale to en_GB# svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init \ setprop environment/LANG = astring: en_GB.UTF-8
- Next we refresh the configuration:
# svcadm refresh svc:/system/environment
- We need to reboot the server for the changes to take effect:
# init 6
- After the reboot the new locale will be active:
# locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=