[WG: I18N & L10N] Changing server default locale

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi Jonas,

Do you mean using settings such as "-Duser.language=fr -Duser.region=FR" 
in the Tomcat JAVA_OPTS?

We've been using such settings for years without issues.

Regards

J-F

On 18/06/2013 11:24, Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have been running sakai with en_US as default locale on the server.
> As the Collation (for comparing strings) is initialized everywhere with
> the default server locale, our users don’t like our Swedish letters
> å,ä,ö,Å,Ä,Ö not sorted correctly.
>
> Is there any risk changing server locale in an existing installation?
> (I’m thinking about data storage differences)
>
> Any experiences of doing this?
>
> We are currently using sakai 2.8.2.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonas Eriksson
> Systemutvecklare
> IT-stöd och systemutveckling (ITS)
> Umeå universitet
> 901 87 Umeå
> Telefon +46 90 786 70 96
>
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>
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