Re: Setting locale information

2007-05-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole

On 5/16/07, Charlie Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I need to set locale values to en_US.UTF-8 system wide.
Is /etc/login.conf the right place to do that?

[...]


From my /etc/profile:

[...]
# For the setting of languages and character sets please see
# login.conf(5) and in particular the charset and lang options.
# For full locales list check /usr/share/locale/*
# You should also read the setlocale(3) man page for information
# on how to achieve more precise control of locale settings.
[...]

So yes, login.conf seems to be the correct place to set system-wide
language options.

-Amarendra
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Re: Setting locale information

2007-05-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote:


On 5/16/07, Charlie Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I need to set locale values to en_US.UTF-8 system wide.
Is /etc/login.conf the right place to do that?

[...]


From my /etc/profile:

[...]
# For the setting of languages and character sets please see
# login.conf(5) and in particular the charset and lang options.
# For full locales list check /usr/share/locale/*
# You should also read the setlocale(3) man page for information
# on how to achieve more precise control of locale settings.
[...]

So yes, login.conf seems to be the correct place to set system-wide
language options.

-Amarendra

See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
   using-localization.html

Greetings,

Uli.



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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany

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