Changing your locale on Windows

You can change your system locale on Windows.

The product components are started as services on Windows and are therefore influenced by the system locale. The command line functions are influenced by the user's locale. WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker on Windows has all its locale information installed by default. However, you might need to install additional locale packages if prompted to do so by Windows.

To change locale, you can do one of the following:

Messages are sent to the Event Log in the code page set by the current locale.

You can use the chcp command to change the active console code page. Enter the command at a command prompt; if you enter chcp without a parameter, it displays the current setting. If you enter it with a code page, it changes to that code page.

For example, to check the current code page setting:

C:\>chcp
Active code page: 437

The current page is displayed (437 is US-ASCII). If you want to change this to GB18030, enter:

C:\>chcp 54936
Active code page: 54936
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