From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 18 14:57:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B326D16A401 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:57:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144F313C447 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:57:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4IEvdJ8070890; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:57:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l4IEvcdL070887; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:57:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:57:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: ulrich@small To: Amarendra Godbole In-Reply-To: <294439d20705180535n3e3cba1an7511dbe8f967ad28@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070518165646.A1329@small> References: <200705161138.34465.cfarinella@appropriatesolutions.com> <294439d20705180535n3e3cba1an7511dbe8f967ad28@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting locale information X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:57:42 -0000 On Fri, 18 May 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On 5/16/07, Charlie Farinella 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