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Setup Unicode

By enabling a locale using UTF-8 character encoding, the system can understand and display each of the 1112064 characters in the Unicode character set, instead of just US ASCII as its default with LANG=C.

  1. For a list of available UTF-8 locale on your computer.
locale -a | grep UTF-8

Note:

  • en_US.UTF-8 is American
  • The LANG=xx_YY.ZZZZ environment variable sets the system locale to
    • language code xx,
    • country code YY, and
    • character encoding ZZZZ

Language and country code affect default application language, number formatting, date and time formatting, string collation, currency settings, and more.

  1. Enable UTF-8 by opening the vi /etc/login.conf file.
Already in file Add below in file
:pseudoterminals=unlimited:\ :charset=UTF-8:\
:priority=0:\ :lang=en_US.UTF-8:
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=022:

  1. Changes made in step-2 must be rebuilt in the login database by cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

  2. Specify this new locale for non login uses with vi /etc/profile and adding

LANG=en_US.UTF-8;       [this will export LANG]
CHARSET=UTF-8;          [this will export CHARSET]
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8;   [this will export GDM_LANG]
  1. Check changes made in step-4 (might require reboot) with
locale

Output should look something like

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8