I have only two locales installed
$ locale -a
C
POSIX
I want to use utf-8 character encoding and hence want to install en_US.UTF-8 For ubuntu I found locale_gen which does the job. Is this utility, or any similar utility present for FreeBSD? If yes, could you please tell me its location? Thanks
I followed this guide to install UTF-8 locale. This is how it looks like in my terminal once that's set up:
g@crayon2:~ % locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Copying from there this is what I changed:
/etc/login.conf
--- login.conf.default 2012-01-02 17:08:05.804291477 -0500
+++ login.conf 2012-01-02 17:08:16.996213774 -0500
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@
\:pseudoterminals=unlimited:\
\:priority=0:\
\:ignoretime@:\
- \:umask=022:
+ \:umask=022:\
+ \:charset=UTF-8:\
+ \:lang=en_US.UTF-8:
Rebuild the login database with cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf after making changes.
/etc/profile
LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
CHARSET=UTF-8; export CHARSET
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export GDM_LANG
Of course I used en_GB rather than en_US as you can tell.
Edit:
The locale files are located in /usr/share/locale:
g@crayon2:/usr/share/locale % ls -l
total 1423
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3 11 Nov 2014 UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 af_ZA.ISO8859-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 af_ZA.ISO8859-15
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 af_ZA.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 am_ET.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 be_BY.CP1131
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 be_BY.CP1251
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 11 Nov 2014 be_BY.ISO8859-5
(..)
These files are not part of any port, they are part of the base.txz archive available from the FreeBSD ftp server:
g@crayon2:~/Downloads % tar -tzf base.txz | grep "usr/share/locale"
./usr/share/locale/
./usr/share/locale/lt_LT.ISO8859-4/
./usr/share/locale/en_GB.ISO8859-15/
./usr/share/locale/kk_KZ.PT154/
./usr/share/locale/it_IT.ISO8859-15/
./usr/share/locale/hy_AM.UTF-8/
./usr/share/locale/en_IE.UTF-8/
./usr/share/locale/zh_HK.UTF-8/
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.ISO8859-1/
./usr/share/locale/zh_CN.eucCN/
./usr/share/locale/fr_BE.ISO8859-15/
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8/
(...)