LOCALE ? FR-fr

[Frank Bonnet]

Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:59:47 +0200, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like one of our server acting as a WebDAV server to allow
>> French characters in filename , how to do so ?
> 
> I'm not sure which charset you will need, maybe ISO-8859-1 or -15
> will do the job to allow accents and other things special to the
> french language?
> 
> Set the correct LC_* variables via /etc/login.conf (elegant) or
> via /etc/csh.cshrc (may be considered ugly, but works). For the last
> case, it would be something like this:
> 
> 	setenv LC_ALL          fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 
> You can do it more "fine grained", if you wish to leave some of
> the configurable things to the standard, for example:
> 
> 	setenv LC_COLLATE      fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 	setenv LC_CTYPE        fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 	setenv LC_MESSAGES     en_US.ISO8859-15
> 	setenv LC_MONETARY     fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 	setenv LC_NUMERIC      fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 	setenv LC_TIME         fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> 
> I have a similar setting for the german language (de_DE) which
> allows me to use Umlauts in file names.
> 
> BUT ATTENTION! I won't recommend anyone to use others but the
> standard character set for filenames. It can lead to problems if
> you're transfering files to a system which doesn't support
> special characters from the french language or is unable to remap
> them correctly. In my opinion, such characters should not be in
> a filename, as well as whitespaces, ampersands, apostrophes,
> doublequotes or similar things. I know it's possible, but it
> sometimes can make things _really_ difficult.
> 
> I hope you won't run into such problems.
> 
> 

Thanks a lot for your help !
I only want to allow French characters in filenames not all the environemment
so I gonna check with the help you gave :-)
thanks