12. i18n

Warning

Please note that this section applies only to OpenCA 1.0+.

If you want to use all of OpenCA locales which you can see in the submenu language then your server must support all of these locales. Nearly every OS has a different way of installing the locales. We list here only the OS where we know from some problems.

Before you start please ensure that there is no language environment if you start the server. We erase LANGUAGE from the environemnt but if your libc finds a language environment then the library ignores our setlocale commands and use the specified locale from the environment. This is a nice feature for client applications but a small horror for servers.

12.1. Debian 3.1 Sarge

Debian set the variable LANGUAGE by default. Sometimes this variable has some funny content (e.g. en_DE). OpenCA erases this variable automatically but it is a good idea to do it by yourself before you start the daemon.

If your OpenCA does not show some translated languages and fall back to other languages then you must activate the language on your machine. This is quite simple. You must run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select all necessary languages with UTF-8 encoding. OpenCA enforces the usage of UTF-8. We do not support other proprietary encodings.

Document generated: 2005-08-05T17:53+0200