Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:11:19 -0500 From: Mark Shroyer <subscriber+freebsd@markshroyer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: UTF-8 and FreeBSD Ports make config / ncurses Message-ID: <20091225031119.GA2944@markshroyer.com>
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Hi,
I can't get the ncurses-based menu shown by running "make config" for an
arbitrary port in FreeBSD 8.0 to use UTF-8 line drawing characters,
rather than ISO-8859-1.
I've configured my locale by setting
:charset=UTF-8:\
:lang=en_US.UTF-8:
in /etc/login.conf and then running cap_mkdb, and this has been
sufficient to get other programs, such as mc, to provide UTF-8 output.
But `make config` in the ports tree is still giving me ISO-8859-1,
resulting in garbled characters in my terminal emulator (PuTTY), which
is configured for UTF-8. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Mark
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