显示当前设置

% locale                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 [0]
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=
		

列出所有可用的公共语言环境的名称，通常我们只关心zh_CN.UTF-8、zh_HK.UTF-8、zh_TW.UTF-8

% locale -a | grep '\.UTF-8$'                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [1]
af_ZA.UTF-8
am_ET.UTF-8
be_BY.UTF-8
bg_BG.UTF-8
ca_AD.UTF-8
ca_ES.UTF-8
ca_FR.UTF-8
ca_IT.UTF-8
cs_CZ.UTF-8
da_DK.UTF-8
de_AT.UTF-8
de_CH.UTF-8
de_DE.UTF-8
el_GR.UTF-8
en_AU.UTF-8
en_CA.UTF-8
en_GB.UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8
es_ES.UTF-8
et_EE.UTF-8
eu_ES.UTF-8
fi_FI.UTF-8
fr_BE.UTF-8
fr_CA.UTF-8
fr_CH.UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8
he_IL.UTF-8
hr_HR.UTF-8
hu_HU.UTF-8
hy_AM.UTF-8
is_IS.UTF-8
it_CH.UTF-8
it_IT.UTF-8
ja_JP.UTF-8
kk_KZ.UTF-8
ko_KR.UTF-8
lt_LT.UTF-8
lv_LV.UTF-8
mn_MN.UTF-8
nb_NO.UTF-8
nl_BE.UTF-8
nl_NL.UTF-8
nn_NO.UTF-8
no_NO.UTF-8
pl_PL.UTF-8
pt_BR.UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8
ro_RO.UTF-8
ru_RU.UTF-8
sk_SK.UTF-8
sl_SI.UTF-8
sr_YU.UTF-8
sv_SE.UTF-8
tr_TR.UTF-8
uk_UA.UTF-8
zh_CN.UTF-8
zh_HK.UTF-8
zh_TW.UTF-8
		

~/.login_conf 文件的作用是，当你登陆系统后会改变你的终端设置

		
% cat ~/.login_conf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [0]
# $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/share/skel/dot.login_conf 77995 2001-06-10 17:08:53Z ache $
#
# see login.conf(5)
#
#me:\
#	:charset=iso-8859-1:\
#	:lang=de_DE.ISO8859-1:
		
		

设置UTF-8支持

		
% cat >> ~/.login_conf <<'EOF'

me:\
	:charset=UTF-8:\
	:lang=en_US.UTF-8:
EOF