Date: 27 Mar 1998 12:20:26 +0100 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Setting the correct locale (was: Fxtv no longer works for me.) Message-ID: <xzpyaxwgz2d.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Kyle Mestery's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:06:51 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980324180434.8617A-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
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Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> writes:
> hope.winternet.com$ fxtv
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> open("/dev/bktr0") failed: Device not configured
This (i.e. that second line in the quote above) is a common problem
for non-American FreeBSD boxes, because /etc/profile just doesn't do
the Right Thing (tm).
The comments in /etc/profile suggest the following:
# Uncomment next two lines to activate Italian locale
# LANG=it_IT.ISO_8859-1; export LANG
# MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSET
But this is not enough; it doesn't set the locale correctly for most X
software (e.g. Emacs) or even Perl 5. In fact, I'm not even sure it
makes *any* sense at all; I don't know of any software that actually
uses $LANG and/or $MM_CHARSET¹. IMHO the Right Thing (tm) to do
(according to e.g. 'man setlocale') is the following:
LC_ALL=it_IT.ISO_8859-1; export LC_ALL
This will stop Emacs, Perl 5 and a bunch of other apps from
complaining about an unsupported locale. All my FreeBSD boxes have a
similar line, and no LANG or MM_CHARSET, in their /etc/profile².
¹ but a quick 'grep -l MM_CHARSET /usr/local/bin' gives mailto,
mailto-hebrew, metamail, rtin, shownonascii and tin. Not one of my
boxes though; I don't use any of this stuff except MetaMail. init(8)
also contains the string MM_CHARSET but I suspect that's because
it's statically linked.
² Actually, I use en_US instead of no_NO because I don't want the
system to speak Norwegian to me and I can't be buggered to use
separate locale settings; what I *should* do is set LC_TIME to en_US
and everything else - or at least LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE - to no_NO
--
fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n");
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