Allow setting the locale during boot and daemon startup.

This is configurable by the new rc.conf option DAEMON_LOCALE.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/functions b/functions
index b06d234..718d8c4 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ unset TERM_COLORS
 # clear the TZ envvar, so daemons always respect /etc/localtime
 unset TZ
 
+# sanitize the locale settins
+unset LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY \
+      LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE \
+      LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL
+if [[ $DAEMON_LOCALE =~ yes|YES && -n $LOCALE ]]; then
+	export LANG="${LOCALE}"
+else
+	export LANG=C
+fi
+
 # colors:
 if [[ $USECOLOR = YES || $USECOLOR = yes ]]; then
 	C_MAIN="\033[1;37;40m"      # main text
diff --git a/rc.conf b/rc.conf
index de182c3..ee09bc2 100644
--- a/rc.conf
+++ b/rc.conf
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 #
 # LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
+# DAEMON_LOCALE: Set the locale during daemon startup and during the boot
+#   process. If set to 'no', the C locale will be used.
 # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
 #   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
 # TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@
 # USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
 #
 LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
+DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
 HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
 TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"
 KEYMAP="us"