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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:02:34 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michael Howard <sniffer@dewberryfields.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: UK Currency Key =?UTF-8?B?KMKjKQ==?=
Message-ID:  <1899169.bl7DLxgNLY@curlew>
In-Reply-To: <a1e41760-6497-6b6e-3824-76f2a4d2ef86@dewberryfields.co.uk>
References:  <a1e41760-6497-6b6e-3824-76f2a4d2ef86@dewberryfields.co.uk>

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On Monday, 10 February 2020 20:27:59 GMT Michael Howard via freebsd-questions wrote:

> Just installed FreeBSD.
> 
> The problem is I don't seem able to get the UK currency key (£) to
> display. No X installed at this point.

Is your locale set correctly for UK English?

curlew:/home/mike% env | grep LANG 
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 

The default section of /etc/login.conf starts like this:

default:\
	:charset=UTF-8:\
	:lang=en_GB.UTF-8:\

-- 
Mike Clarke



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