From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 14 16:13:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3266E35F for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from oneyou.mcmli.com (oneyou.mcmli.com [IPv6:2001:470:1d:8da::100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BFB18F2 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (sentry.24cl.com [IPv6:2001:470:89e9:feed::1]) by oneyou.mcmli.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3bX6Lt24fTz1DQJ for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from BigBloat (bigbloat.24cl.home [10.20.1.4]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3bX6Ls2mjcz1nZ2 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <201306141213340281.009F8EE9@smtp.24cl.home> X-Mailer: Courier 3.50.00.09.1098 (http://www.rosecitysoftware.com) (P) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:34 -0400 From: "Mike." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting a lcoale globally Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:13:44 -0000 I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the locale propagate as I go into other shells and run various scripts. I have spent some quality time with google, and the best I have been about to ascertain is that I need to sprinkle the LANG setting throughout the various ENV variables and .profile, .cshrc, .bashrc, and whatever files spread across my directory tree. That really seems counter-intuitive to me. Is it at all possible for me to specify in once place *somewhere" that the entire server is to use the locale setting LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" ? I need a clue... thanks.