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Internationalization (i18n)

CA SystemEDGE, CA Virtual Assurance AIMs, and selected command line utilities support internationalization that is based on UTF-8 character encoding.

SystemEDGE Control Panel Applet

The SystemEDGE Control Panel Applet uses the system locale regardless of the locale that is specified during the installation. If specific language resources for the system locale are not available, the UI of the SystemEDGE Control Panel Applet is presented in English.

SystemEDGE Configuration File

When you modify the sysedge.cf configuration file to add language-specific characters, verify that the text editor you use supports UTF-8 as a storage format. If the text editor inserts a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark while saving the file, SystemEDGE ignores the Byte Order Mark while reading the configuration file.

Regular Expressions with UTF-8 encoded characters

If you want to use UTF-8 encoded characters in regular expressions that are used for SystemEDGE monitors, enable the PCRE regular expression library. For more information about using PCRE, see the SystemEDGE User Guide.

SystemEDGE CLI Commands

The following commands provide localized output and console help information:

• edgemon
• edgewatch
• emphistory
• se_enc

If you use the optional –L switch, the utility detects the current locale of the console and language catalog if available. If a language catalog is not found, the utility falls back to English as a default language.

Customize Console Display

If you want to display console data that contains language-specific characters, verify the following prerequisites for CLI commands:

• Verify that the appropriate language support is available on your operating system.
• Enable the Lucida Console font in the Windows Command Prompt for running your commands.
• Enable UTF-8 character encoding in the UNIX or Linux console that you want to use to run your commands. Enter the following command in the terminal console to display the current language setting:

  echo $LANG
  

  If UTF-8 is not enabled, enter, for example, the following command in a console window (use the appropriate character encoding: en_US.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, fr_BE.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8, and so on):

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
  

Limitations

SystemEDGE supports only hostnames with the characters 'a - z', 'A - Z', '0 - 9' and '-'. A hostname cannot start with a hyphen ('-') or cannot be all numeric. The NetBIOS name of a Windows system must match its DNS hostname.

SystemEDGE supports only ASCII characters in:

• All SystemEDGE parameters with the exception of policy names
• SystemEDGE Privilege Separation User (UNIX and Linux only)
• SNMP read, read/write, and trap community strings
• %TEMP% environment variable
• All SystemEDGE installation target paths

Exchange Server and Active Directory AIM

This release of the Exchange Server and Active Directory AIM does not support internationalization.