Re:

> /SYS/RRAM/test>export LANG=chinese-t
> /SYS/RRAM/test>echo $LANG
> chinese-t
> /SYS/RRAM/test>a.out
> Locale is :

I did the same, got the same results.  I then tried a few
other languages (korean, danish) ... they worked fine.  chinese-s
also failed for me.

   ./loctest
   Locale is : /:C;:C;:C;:C;:C;:C;/

   export LANG=chinese-t
   ./loctest
   Locale is :

Note: logged on as MANAGER.SYS and ran LANGINST ... which showed
that danish and chinese-t were "currently configured", and
korean and chinese-s weren't.  I.e., no obvious correlation
between the LANGINST configured languages and the success/failures
of the two chinese ones.

I tried the test on HP-UX 10.20, and got:

   (oz#sieler) source: ./loctest
   Locale is : C C C C C C

   (oz#sieler) source: export LANG=chinese-t
   (oz#sieler) source: ./loctest
   Locale is : zh_TW.ccdc zh_TW.ccdc zh_TW.ccdc zh_TW.ccdc zh_TW.ccdc zh_TW.ccdc

Back on the 3000...

:langinst
HP32414A.03.00  LANGINST/3000  (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO., 1983


0.  EXIT
1.  ADD LANGUAGE TO LANGDEF
2.  DELETE LANGUAGE FROM LANGDEF
3.  MODIFY NATIVE FORMATS
4.  LIST HP SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
5.  MODIFY THE SYSTEM DEFAULT LANGUAGE
6.  LIST LANGUAGES CURRENTLY CONFIGURED
7.  DISPLAY TRANSLATION TABLES


Enter selection number :6

The following languages are currently configured :

1      AMERICAN           using  ROMAN8
3      DANISH             using  ROMAN8
7      FRENCH             using  ROMAN8
12     SPANISH            using  ROMAN8
211    CHINESE-T          using  ROC15

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