Chapter 12<P> Specifying the locale
Specifying the locale
The
International Settings Manager
controls the locale settings for your system and for each user.
This affects the format in which information
such as dates and currency values are displayed, the
language in which some system messages are displayed,
the system (graphical console) keyboard configuration, and
the characters recognized by the system (the ``codeset'').
Each user can set the locale for their own environment.
If you are the system administrator, you can configure the
locale for everybody on the system -- see
``Setting the system locale''.