Configuring HP-UX for Different Languages, February 2002

How to Configure Your System Language
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1 How to Configure Your System
Language
The HP-UX operating system provides a number of European and Asian
locales, some supported via different codesets, for instance: iso8859-1
(Western European), utf8 (European & Asian, including Euro support)
and iso8859-15 (Western European, including Euro support). See
Appendix A, Locale Names,, for a listing of the provided locales.
It also provides localized command line messages, graphical user
interfaces, and some online help volumes in several languages.
HP-UX supports:
•European
• Japanese
• Korean
• Simplified Chinese
•Traditional Chinese
There are three ways these languages are supplied for your HP-UX
system:
1. You may order a specific language to be configured on your system at
the HP factory.
2. Some HP-UX systems are shipped from the HP factory with all
available languages and locales already installed on the system.
3. You may choose to load all (or individual) languages from the Core OS
media that is shipped with your system.
This document describes how to configure your HP-UX system for proper
behavior for languages other than English.