Setting java locale settings

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When I use the default java locale on my linux machine it comes out with the US locale settings  where do I change this so that it comes out with the correct locale

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I believe java gleans this from the environment variables in which it was launched, so you'll need to make sure your LANG and LC_* environment variables are set appropriately.

The locale manpage has full info on said environment variables.

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With the user language  user country and user variant properties   Example   java -Duser language th -Duser country TH -Duser variant TH SomeClass

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You could call during init or whatever Locale setDefault   or -Duser language   -Duser country   and -Duser variant  at the command line  Here s something on Sun s site

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If you ever want to check what locale or character set java is using this is built into the JVM   java -XshowSettings -version   and it will dump out loads of the settings it s using  This way you can check your LANG and LC   values are getting picked up correctly

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If you are on Mac  simply using System Preferences -  Languages and dragging the language to test to top  before English  will make sure the next time you open the App  the right locale is tried

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If you ever want to check what locale or character set java is using this is built into the JVM   java -XshowSettings -version   and it will dump out loads of the settings it s using  This way you can check your LANG and LC   values are getting picked up correctly

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With the user language  user country and user variant properties   Example   java -Duser language th -Duser country TH -Duser variant TH SomeClass

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One way to control the locale settings is to set the java system properties user language and user region

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One way to control the locale settings is to set the java system properties user language and user region

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You can change on the console     export LANG en US utf8

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For tools like jarsigner which is implemented in Java   JAVA TOOL OPTIONS -Duser language en jarsigner

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On linux  create file in  etc default locale with the following contents  LANG en utf8   and then use the source command to export this variable by running  source  etc default locale   The source command sets the variable permanently

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With the user language  user country and user variant properties   Example   java -Duser language th -Duser country TH -Duser variant TH SomeClass

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With the user language  user country and user variant properties   Example   java -Duser language th -Duser country TH -Duser variant TH SomeClass

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One way to control the locale settings is to set the java system properties user language and user region

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You could call during init or whatever Locale setDefault   or -Duser language   -Duser country   and -Duser variant  at the command line  Here s something on Sun s site

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For tools like jarsigner which is implemented in Java   JAVA TOOL OPTIONS -Duser language en jarsigner

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One way to control the locale settings is to set the java system properties user language and user region

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I had to control this in a script that ran on a machine with French locale  but a specific Java program had to run with en US  As already pointed out  the following works   java -Duser language en -Duser country US       Alternatively    LC ALL en US UTF-8 java       I prefer the latter

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You can change on the console     export LANG en US utf8

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You could call during init or whatever Locale setDefault   or -Duser language   -Duser country   and -Duser variant  at the command line  Here s something on Sun s site

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On linux  create file in  etc default locale with the following contents  LANG en utf8   and then use the source command to export this variable by running  source  etc default locale   The source command sets the variable permanently

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If you are on Mac  simply using System Preferences -  Languages and dragging the language to test to top  before English  will make sure the next time you open the App  the right locale is tried

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You could call during init or whatever Locale setDefault   or -Duser language   -Duser country   and -Duser variant  at the command line  Here s something on Sun s site

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I had to control this in a script that ran on a machine with French locale  but a specific Java program had to run with en US  As already pointed out  the following works   java -Duser language en -Duser country US       Alternatively    LC ALL en US UTF-8 java       I prefer the latter

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