Photon OS with international locales - another platform -- another way
Daniel Nashed – 30 April 2021 20:02:47
You think Linux is standard?
Look at how different platforms handle the locale in glibc and you get an idea ....
I blogged about RedHat/CentOS and the way to have to add for example "glibc-langpack-de" for German.
Redhat UBI for example even didn't have the international locales.
On SUSE platforms you have to install glibc-locale.
VMware Photon OS does have a completely different way to install locales.
Here is what I use on Docker to automatically install the German locale for example:
yum install -y glibc-i18n
echo "de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale-gen.conf
locale-gen.sh
yum remove -y glibc-i18n
The locale is important to have the right date and time representation.
-- Daniel
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