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Fractal
Fractal

Reputation: 1897

problems getting locale to execute on command line

If I conduct the below three steps in a English version of Windows 7, the local will execute as desired:

  1. Open the cmd
  2. Go to directory 'C:\Windows\System32>'
  3. type 'locale' into the command line

However, if I do the exact same steps in a Spanish version of Windows 7, I get the following error message:

which seems to be translated to English as:

I cannot understand why locale will not execute in the Spanish OS. The file, locale.nls does exist in directory C:\Windows\System32> in the Spanish version of Windows so it is not as if the file goes by a different name when using a Spanish os.
Does anyone know why the locale command would not work on the Spanish command line?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3204

Answers (2)

Fractal
Fractal

Reputation: 1897

the locale command was coming from Cygwin, not from cmd. I had Cygwin installed on my Computer and additionally had added c:\cygwin\bin to the PATH environment variable. Therefore, the cmd was picking up the locale command from the Cygwin bin, not from C:\Windows\System32. Once I installed Cygwin onto the machine with the Spanish OS, the locale command operated as expected. The picture below shows typical output from the locale command ...

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You can change the output of the locale command by changing the value of one of the LC_ variables as shown below ...

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As far as I can tell, this seems to have no affect on how any program (installed on windows) operates or what locale is used by a program by default. C.UTF8 still seems to be the default locale used by software even if the value of locale is changed to something other than C.UTF8.

Upvotes: 5

Etixpp
Etixpp

Reputation: 328

There is truly no reason why this should happen. There are 2 options: You are using a Windows Crack or your Windows files are corrupted.

Upvotes: 0

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