A number of environment variables influence frePPLe.
Variable | Description |
FREPPLE_HOME | FrePPLe uses the following configuration files during the execution of the program:
FrePPLe searches the following directories in sequence to locate these files.
By setting the FREPPLE_HOME environment variable you can control the directories where the application looks for your application files. |
LC_ALL | FrePPLe stores string data internally using the encoding associated with your locale. This setting is important when dealing with non-ascii characters in your data. Your locale needs to support all characters being used, just as your database will also need to support them. Most modern Linux distributions have a default locale that supports utf-8, which allows every possible unicode character to be represented. On Windows, this environment variable isn’t used and FrePPLe can only represent characters present in the default windows locale. Use the “regional and language settings” screen from the control panel to change that default locale. |
TZ | FrePPLe uses the C-library functions for date and time manipulations. These functions are respecting timezones and daylight saving time, which can give sometimes give unexpected results: twice a year you’ll find a day with 25 or 23 hours. To disable any effects of daylight saving time, change the TZ variable to a timezone without daylight saving time, e.g. ‘EST’. |