Installation default locale

The installation default locale refers to the locale selected at installation. For example, when prompted, a user can specify the French language as spoken in Canada during the installation process. The code set automatically defaults to the ISO8859-1 code set.

With this information, the system sets the value of the default locale, specified by the LANG environment variable, to fr_CA (fr for ISO8859-1 French and CA for Canada). Every process uses this locale unless the LC_* or LANG environment variables are modified. The default locale can be changed by using the Manage Language Environment menu in SMIT.

When a system backup is created and reinstalled, the default locale values are used in the /bosinst.data file, if available, and in the /var/adm/ras/bosinst.data file. These two files are not updated automatically when you change the locale value by using the smit mlang command. In this scenario, to match the locale value of the running system, you must change the stanza in the /bosinst.data file, if available, and in the /var/adm/ras/bosinst.data file.