Change user locale to French

[dave900_fr]

Hello,

Could someone help me configure the locale to French for specific users? I had a try modifying the /etc/login.conf and adding a language definition then using vipw command but did not work... login.conf was reset to default after reboot.

Anyways, would greatly appreciate some help :)
Many thanks,
David

 

[rm-r]

Hi, sorry but i cant help you with specific iss, but i know that the base OS is reset on every reboot so any changes you make are lost - that's normal behaviour. I have seen some users use scripts to run at start-up to replace the file each time with the one you want.

 

[freenasbbs]

i have the same issue,and i don't know how to fix it.:(
i want to change login.conf in order to make freenas support chinese
Unfortunately, I haven't found the solution..
if you have fix this problem please tell me ,thank you!

 

[freenasbbs]

hello!
Dusan replys:

login.conf was reset to default after reboot​

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You do not need to edit the system wide login.conf. Just create a new user end experiment with ~/.login_conf (the .login_conf file in his home directory).
(This won't work with roots home directory as the one is also on the read only root filesystem.)​

dave900_fr @ : ​

i don't know how to solve this problem yet. if you can get some information from dusan's reply and solve this problem finally,please tell me detail,thanks!​

 

[dasti]

same problem here, I try to see chinese caracters.
I tried to create another user and change his .login_conf but I keet having the same message "impossible to save, system is read only"

maybe I don't create users corectly ?

 

[solarisguy]

Would it be enough if FreeNAS moved from locale "C" to "en_US.UTF-8" ?

 

[dasti]

from my readings I would say yes (But, I'm really a noob on all that)
you have a method for that ?

 

[solarisguy]

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...not-displayed-in-ssh.10590/page-2#post-103886

He is using en_GB.UTF-8, but unless somebody really needs for example non-English sorting or cal in their language, I recommend en_US.UTF-8 since it is enough for displaying correctly anything UTF-8

 

[dasti]

works perfectly ! thank you so much :)
That means I can now use a software on windows boxes (craete synchonicity) that will save automatically the files on freenas !

next step make deltacopy (rsync+cygwin) work properly with those chinese caracters !
I'm almost there, I can feel it :)