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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:37:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org>
To:        Alex Teslik <alex@acatysmoof.com>
Cc:        List freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: non-English character support
Message-ID:  <20051031023743.96573.qmail@hyperreal.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051021062024.M27175@acatysmoof.com>

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Alex Teslik wrote:
> I was also wondering why there is no en_US.UTF8 in /usr/share/locale? Any
> guidence is much appreciated.
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5.

In FreeBSD 4.x, the UTF-8 locale support files have to be installed from the
ports collection.

cd /usr/ports/misc/utf8locale
make install

You'll need to do this after each OS upgrade (unless you go to 5.x, under
which you should remove the port entirely).



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