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Setting the Locale

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Setting Locale on Windows Platforms Setting Locale on Linux and Solaris Platforms Setting Locale on Macintosh Platforms

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Setting Locale on Windows Platforms

Setting Locale on Linux and Solaris Platforms

Setting Locale on Macintosh Platforms

Setting Locale on Windows Platforms

MATLAB software uses the system locale and user locale on Windows platforms:

Setting User Locale on Windows Vista Platforms

Select Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options.
Open Formats tab.
Select an item from the drop-down list.

Setting System Locale on Windows Vista Platforms

Select Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options.
Open Administrative tab.
Click Change system locale... button.
Select an item from the drop-down list.
Reboot the system.

Note When you change the system locale, you must reboot your system; otherwise, you might see unexpected locale-setting behaviors.

Setting User Locale on Windows XP Platforms

Select Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options.
Open Regional Options tab.
Select an item from the drop-down list.

Setting System Locale on Windows XP Platforms

Select Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options.
Open Advanced tab.
Select an item from the drop-down list.
Reboot the system.

Note When you change the system locale, you must reboot your system; otherwise, you might see unexpected locale-setting behaviors.

Setting Locale on Linux and Solaris Platforms

Linux^[1] and Sun Solaris™ platforms manage locale settings with six locale categories. These are the same categories used by C standard library functions.

The following locale categories are available:

LC_CTYPE controls character data manipulations.
LC_COLLATE controls character collation/sorting operations.
LC_TIME controls date/time data formatting or parsing.
LC_NUMERIC controls numeric data formatting or parsing.
LC_MONETARY controls monetary data formatting or parsing.
LC_MESSAGES controls the user UI language.

Setting User Locale and User UI Language

Use the LANG environment variable to specify a single locale for all locale categories. The locale specified with this variable might be partially or entirely over-written by other environment variables.

Use the environment variables LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_MONETARY to specify a locale for a particular category.

Use the LC_ALL environment variable to over-write all locales specified with other environment variables. If a single locale has to be set to all locale categories, use LANG instead of LC_ALL.