java locale ?

[mstormi]

java needs to be run with -D options to have the proper locale in order to have OH display item states in the proper format (e.g. "," instead of "." as a separator behind the integer part of a number). This may or may not be a problem in current openHABian but needs to be checked and changed, eventually. If so derive proper setting from the OS locale setting ?

EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS: "-Duser.country=DE" EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS: "-Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin"

[florian-h05]

proper locale in order to have OH display item states in the proper format (e.g. "," instead of "." as a separator behind the integer part of a number).

I had the same problem a few days ago, but ...

This may or may not be a problem in current openHABian

This is a problem of the current openHABian, I also had this some time ago. I identified that it's a problem with the system locales, and not java. See https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/issues/1718.

I fixed it in https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/pull/1719.

I just checked my EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS in /etc/default/openhab and I have nothing set there, so the problem was definitely related to the system locales, after I set the locales correctly, openHAB used the proper locale.

[mstormi]

thanks for explaining and fixing

[mstormi]

Just hitting this again myself. Thing is, system_default_locale was the openhabian.conf parameter to set locale on unattended installs. It now doesn't work any more. While current code is fine when system_default_locale is unset, it should be honored when set.

[florian-h05]

Oops, I was not aware of this. I think it should be fine if we check for INTERACTIVE or UNATTENED mode and then use system_default_locale only if we are in UNATTENDED. I‘ll provide a fix later.