Language in FreeBSD

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:23:04 +0200, ddddd dddd wrote:
> > Programs usually support the LC_* variables (LC_MESSAGES for
> > example, LC_ALL to override) as well as LANG. You can try to
> > set those in your ~/.login if the C shell is your login shell,
> > or in ~/.login_conf, for example like this:
> >
> > me:\
> > :charset=iso-8859-1:\
> > :lang=de_DE.ISO8859-1:
> >
> > Note that you probably will use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1
> > if you want to be "future-proof". :-)
> Well, I tried :lang=no_NO with ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15 and UTF-8,
> the $LANG variable were always empty.

According to "man login.conf", setting lang= will set $LANG,
but it will not set any of the LC_* variables. If I remember
correctly, $LANG has precedence.

If you want to set LC_* variables via ~/.login_conf, you can
use the setenv= parameter.



> > Maybe you can add some C shell specific environmental settings.
> > Here are some examples:
> >
> > # german input, english messages
> > setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_MESSAGES en_US.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_COLLATE de_DE.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_CTYPE de_DE.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_MONETARY de_DE.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_NUMERIC de_DE.ISO8859-1
> > setenv LC_TIME de_DE.ISO8859-1
> > unsetenv LANG
> >
> > # german with Euro sign
> > setenv LC_ALL de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_COLLATE de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_CTYPE de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_MESSAGES de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_MONETARY de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_NUMERIC de_DE.ISO8859-15
> > setenv LC_TIME de_DE.ISO8859-15
> >
> > # german with UTF-8 ("more international")
> > setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_MESSAGES en_US.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_COLLATE de_DE.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_CTYPE de_DE.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_MONETARY de_DE.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_NUMERIC de_DE.UTF-8
> > setenv LC_TIME de_DE.UTF-8
> > setenv LANG de_DE.UTF-8
> >
> > Maybe this this can help with testing and inspiration. :-)
> 
> In what file? 

Set those in /etc/csh.cshrc for global effect, or in your own
~/.cshrc for your user. Note that there's also a precedence of
LC_ALL over the other LC_* settings, if I remember correctly.




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