How to change languageto swedish/latin on CentOS?

[oskare100]

Hello,
I've worked a lot to get my server working but now I discovered that I choose wrong language support when I installed CentOS 5. It works in HTTPD to set the default charset to UFT-8 but when I try to use PHP functions as ucwords() and when I try to phrase XML it doesn't work as it should so I need to set the locale? or language? to the default one for Swedish so I can use the Swedish ?,? and ? letters.

I've tried with:
localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE
export LC_ALL=sv_SE
export LANG=sv
and similar but it doesn't work.

So please, I'm greatful for anything that could help me solve this.

Thanks,
Oskar

[oskare100]

Hello again,
Here is what happens when I try to change in the way I mentioned in my first post:
[root@localhost ~]# localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# shutdown -r now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 16 13:15:29 2007):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
login as: root
root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 16 13:11:38 2007 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
[root@localhost ~]# 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_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@localhost ~]#

In other words, after restart it gets back to what it was before and before restart it doesn't have any affect on the system...

/Oskar

[shri]

cd /etc/sysconfig

backup the file i18n

LANG="sv_SE..UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
SUPPORTED="sv_SE.UTF-8:en_US:en"



Reboot and see if that changes things for you.

For PHP look at the mbstrings settings.

[oskare100]

Hello,
It didn't change anything, what do you mean with mbstring? Where can I find the settings for mbstring?

Thanks,
/Oskar

[shri]

http://hk.php.net/mbstring

Does not apply if you're not using multibyte though.

Also, you want to ensure that the default charset is setup correctly in PHP.INI

http://hk.php.net/ini.core

Look for default_charset and make sure its correctly set.

Finally, try the setlocale call in PHP to see if it works.

http://hk.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

[shri]

also, at the shell prompt, "locale -e" will show what location support is intalled.