Activating Unicode/UTF-8 Support and Changing Default Locale Language in Slackware

Source: http://gnu-linux-slackware.blogspot.com/2009/06/changing-system-wide-default-language.html For a list of locales which are supported by your Slackware box, type: $ locale -a If you have full installation of Slackware, all languages will be listed. To get UTF-8 support, edit lang.sh file as root by: # nano /etc/profile.d/lang.sh Comment default locale and add uncommented line export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 After modifying lang.sh file, save it and reboot your computer.