default character encoding in gnome-terminal

[John D. Gage III]

Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to change the default character encoding in 
> gnome-terminal? I can set it to ISO-8859-15 in the menu but the 
> default UTF-8 keeps coming back. I think it has something to do with 
> the locale settings in FreeBSD but how do I change that?
e.g.
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

in /etc/profile and/or /etc/rc.conf

You may also want to read this entire thread from April regarding 
certain issues between setting LANG in /etc/profile and /etc/rc.conf:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-April/022116.html

-John Gage
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
>