Any update on this? I would love to get some functionality like this in, but if it isn't possible to do cleanly, then I can close it.

In D2102#14, @hrs wrote:

I am reviewing the patch. I can understand what is desired but I am concerned about that rc.delay in the original patch duplicates code fragments in /etc/rc. Can I have a couple of days to consider a simpler solution?

In D2105#14, @imp wrote:

How do you keep from disclosing the root password to anybody that can run kenv?

Update the patch with rc.conf.5 manpage additions

Thanks for the feedback bdrewery, cleaned up patch is updated.

Update the diff to include /etc/rc.delay script

We didn't have anything too fancy to do this. All we did was hard-code in en_US.UTF-8 and then have our installer script sed that to whatever:

Ok, I did some digging, haven't looked at this bit of code in PC-BSD in a while. Our old method was to set the UTF-8 stuff in /etc/login.conf during the installation, nothing special.

Our "stock" freebsd login.conf is modified during installation, so the default becomes "en_US.UTF-8" or "<FOO>.UTF-8". We've been doing this for a couple of years now at least. The only minor issues we've run into is "forcing" some Qt apps to do UTF-8 by default, but that's about it.