INSTALLING LOCALE DEFINITIONS Determining version of libc Different versions of libc require different types of definitions. Therefore the first thing you must do is to determine which version of libc you are using. There are two different ways to determine this. The first and simplest is to run 'ldd /bin/ls'. If this doesn't work you have to list the files in /lib, there should be a symbolic link called libc.so.X where X is the major revision (probably 5). This link points to the actual libc, any by examining which file this is ('ls -l /lib/lic.so.5') you see exactly which version of libc you are using. Installation The tar-file has been compressed with gzip so you must use the 'z' argument to tar (gnu specific). The tarfile should be extracted in the root directory: cd / tar zxvf locdef*.tar.gz And now??? Now you just have to set the appropriate LC_* environmentvariable (if you are in western Europe you can set LC_CTYPE to iso_8859_1) and run your internationalized applications. For more reading on internationalization see comp.software.international. Comments If you have any comments about these files feel free to send them to me at maf@dtek.chalmers.se.