Customizing SoftBench for Native Language Support (NLS)
Preparing to Use NLS in SoftBenchPreparing to Use NLS in SoftBench
SoftBench was developed to take full advantage of the flexibility of the X11 Window System in supporting
You must complete the following steps to use NLS in SoftBench. If you have purchased a localized version of SoftBench, additional installation and customization directions may have been shipped with it. Follow those directions, too. If there are any discrepancies, follow the directions that came with your localized version.
1.Make sure that SoftBench is properly installed.
2.Determine whether or not you need the
3.Execute the following command:
ls
where lang is the value you use for the LANG environment variable.
If the directory is not found, you will still be able to run SoftBench, but SoftBench will issue a warning message each time it is started. To avoid this warning, you can link in a nonlocalized file.
Execute the following command (as superuser) to link in a nonlocalized directory:
ln /opt/softbench/config/types/C /opt/softbench/config/types/lang
4.Verify that your X server font search path is set to load the fonts for the character set representation that you will use. SoftBench supports both:
•the Roman8 and ISO 8859.1 encodings for
•
Use the xset(1) command to determine and change the font search
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