Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:57:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting locale information Message-ID: <20070518165646.A1329@small> In-Reply-To: <294439d20705180535n3e3cba1an7511dbe8f967ad28@mail.gmail.com> References: <200705161138.34465.cfarinella@appropriatesolutions.com> <294439d20705180535n3e3cba1an7511dbe8f967ad28@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 May 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On 5/16/07, Charlie Farinella <cfarinella@appropriatesolutions.com> 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany
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