How to change the system locale in RHEL3/4/5/6 ?
Issue
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How should the locale be changed on a system wide / global level?
- Need to change the
LC_CTYPEfromutf8toiso88591.
- Need to change the
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Locale changes are not taking effect or do not persist. How should the locale be permanently changed?
- When "
LANG" in/etc/sysconfig/i18nis modified and the system is rebooted, it's still inutf8.
- When "
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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