Let OpenBSD speak french

  2011-09-09      58 words, 1 minutes

• français
• french
• language
• locale
• openbsd

Nowadays, most free software is localized. I don’t really care about using a french GUI but it sometime helps to automatically set tools like spellcheckers. Here’s the variables set I use so that most of my (graphical) applications speak french on OpenBSD (5.0):

  # vi .profile
  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
  MM_CHARSET=UTF-8
  LC_ALL=$LANG
  LC_COLLATE=POSIX;
  export LANG MM_CHARSET LC_ALL LC_COLLATE

Voilà, c’est fait.