Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:54:06 -0400 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a locale globally Message-ID: <201306141554060140.016975D2@smtp.24cl.home> In-Reply-To: <20130614211207.d2d105b8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201306141213340281.009F8EE9@smtp.24cl.home> <20130614211207.d2d105b8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 6/14/2013 at 9:12 PM Polytropon wrote: |On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:34 -0400, Mike. wrote: |> 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. | |You can add this to /etc/csh.cshrc as it will be inherited by |all interactive shells (login shells), unless of course they |override it with ~/.cshrc: | | setenv LANG en_US.ISO8859-1 That works for the login shell, but when I su to another user (e.g., root), LANG is no longer in the environment. | |It's also possible to add it to /etc/profile and even make an |addition to /etc/login.conf's "default" setting: | | default:\ | :setenv=LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1:... That works for the login shell, but when I su to another user (e.g., root), LANG is no longer in the environment.
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