setting default language in script

[shaka]

When running a perl script to create a VM in vCenter the script fails due to the default language set in vCenter and/or the vCLI. The default langauge set is to something other than Englisgh and the script has been written in english so the script does not run. How can I set the default language in the script to English? Any ideas?

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Per the vCLI documentation you can use:

--encoding <encoding>
VI_ENCODING=<encoding>
Specifies the encoding to be used. One of cp936 (Simplified Chinese) ISO-8859-1
(German), or Shift_JIS (Japanese).
You can use --encoding to specify the encoding the vSphere CLI should map to
when it is run on a foreign language system.

If that works, you can create a configuration file and just add the entry VI_ENCODING="" and that will be permanent each time you call any vCLI or vSphere SDK for Perl scripts.

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[shaka]

Thanks found the same answer as your email came through