Language in FreeBSD

[Dima Panov]

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18.06.14, 13:57, 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.
> 

For setting LC_* directly from .login_conf I use a small hack on all
my boxes :)

Index: lib/libutil/login_class.c
===================================================================
- --- lib/libutil/login_class.c   (revision 267346)
+++ lib/libutil/login_class.c   (working copy)
@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@
 }, envars[] = {
     { "lang",           "LANG",       NULL, 1},
     { "charset",        "MM_CHARSET", NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_all",         "LC_ALL",     NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_collate",     "LC_COLLATE", NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_ctype",       "LC_CTYPE",   NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_messages",    "LC_MESSAGES",NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_monetary",    "LC_MONETARY",NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_numeric",     "LC_NUMERIC", NULL, 1},
+    { "lc_time",        "LC_TIME",    NULL, 1},
     { "timezone",       "TZ",         NULL, 1},
     { "term",           "TERM",       NULL, 0},
     { NULL,             NULL,         NULL, 0}


Or grab it from http://people.freebsd.org/~fluffy/patches/libutil.diff

And my .login_conf looks like this:

me:\
        :charset=UTF-8:\
        :lang=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
        :lc_all=:\
        :lc_collate=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
        :lc_ctype=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
        :lc_messages=en_GB.UTF-8:\
        :lc_monetary=en_GB.UTF-8:\
        :lc_numeric=en_GB.UTF-8:\
        :lc_time=en_GB.UTF-8:
        :tc=default:

> 
> 
>>> 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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