change system language

[murkis]

Hello,

I have a java program that has to use specific character encoding (baltic 1257). When i run this program on a UTF debian system, i get hieroglyphs from this program's output. If i change the system language to the one i need - it works fine, but the whole system changes to this language and i don't want that.

What i need to do is figure out a way (if such exists) to run make this java process think that the system language is "lt-LT". Is this possible via some shell script or something like that?

And do not suggest to convert this program to UTF instead of ASCII, because for some specific reasons, windows-1257 is required.

[iwanabeguru]

run this program in terminal and set up the language variables
the fastest way
prompt> LC_ALL="the needed language"; programname parameters

[murkis]

So if i wanted to write a shell script for that, should i do:

export LC_ALL="lt-LT"
java /blah/blah/something.java

or would it be:

LC_ALL="lt-LT"
java /blah/blah/something.java

or:

LC_ALL="lt_LT"; java/blah/blah/something.java

?

[iwanabeguru]

use the second one, i don't think export would be needed but maybe, if not works use the first one

";" only needed when you type two ore more commands into on line in a terminal its a command separator