Changing default NLS settings

[tstalzer]

Hi

I installed our server application on a new server which is running on a Windows 2k8 Server. Unfortunately, the server is configured with US/english as default language, etc. and I am not allowed to change it. However, the application should be using the german Locale for Numeric, Currency and Date presentation.

I added the following code to the .ini file with no change in behaviour regarding NLS presentation. I copied the lines from an "old" project, where we had the same problem, although I am not sure, if we ever solved it (the project got scraped before the deadline...)

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[Locale Overrides]
decimalPoint=,
thousandsSep=.
language=german
territory=germany

These entries have no effect in our application, so my question - Are the definitions correct? (We are using VA/St 8.02)

Thomas

[marten]

I just looked into the source code and I would say: yes, they are correct. It works at least in the development image and for runtime: well then the application "AbtNlsCfsSupportApp" must be included in your packaged image, which normally is ?!

Marten

These entries have no effect in our application, so my question - Are the definitions correct? (We are using VA/St 8.02)

[tstalzer]

Hi Marten

We have the AbtNlsKernelApp included in the pre-requisites, which I always thought would have been sufficient as the Locale/AbtLocale code for the actiontable on parsing the .ini is included here.+

I will try with the AbtNlsCfsSupportApp and report here

Thanks for the help

--Thomas

[marten]

When starting the an image AbtNlsKernelApp initializes the used Locale class to #Locale (during preStartUp) - you can check this when executing "Locale current" in your development IDE, where you get an instance of Locale.

The class method AbtLocale class>>readLocaleOverrides (AbtLocale is defined in AbtNlsKernelApp) is the method, which parses the ini file for changes concerning the Locale definition and overwrites the configuration already set in "Locale current".

But this method is only called from AbtNlsCfsSupportApp class>>startUp (which is defined in application AbtNlsCfsSupportApp) and this startUp method is called AFTER the prerequisite application AbtNlsKernelApp has been started-up.

That's at least as I understand the code ....

We have the AbtNlsKernelApp included in the pre-requisites