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Set the Locale

Before you install BusinessObjects Enterprise, set your operating system to use one of the locales that BusinessObjects Enterprise supports for your version of UNIX. See the Supported Platforms documents on the CA Business Intelligence DVD for a detailed list of supported UNIX environments.

Note: You must ensure that the character encoding on your terminal is set to utf8 on Linux and UTF-8 on other platforms. For example, a en_US.UTF-8 locale would be:

Locale setting is an operating system-dependent task. For example, to set an en_US.UTF-8 locale on Solaris, you must install only two packages, but installing only these two packages does not set up other locales on which en_US.UTF-8 is dependent. To do that, you must install some other packages from the operating system CD. All of them must be installed to make this particular locale work properly. One way to ensure that the locale is set properly is to check that the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables are set to the desired local; all other locale variables which show up with the "locale" command should then get set automatically.

If you are working through the console of a UNIX computer, you can select your locale directly from the logon screen when you log in with the account from which you will install BusinessObjects Enterprise. However, to ensure that your operating system uses the correct locale whenever BusinessObjects Enterprise runs, set the LC_ALL and LANG environment variables to your preferred locale in your login environment. (For example, if you are using a C shell, set these environment variables in the .login file).