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Re: locale error messages



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Timeboy <timohart@gmx.at> writes:

> On Saturday 12 Jan 2002 04:50 CET Titus Barik wrote:
> 
> > After doing a recent dselect upgrade, I'm noticing the following when
> > trying to view man pages:
> > 
> > barik@chronos:~$ man ls
> > (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> > Reformatting ls(1), please wait...
> 
> This could be a bug. I have the same trouble since two days. Trying to
> configure locales in /etc/locale.gen and /etc/environment had no
> effect.
> 
> Please let me know if there is a way to fix this and this is NOT a bug.
> Some other things also working bad. Hope that there cames a better
> update soon.
> 
> Timo
> 

I've fixed this by adding

LANG="en_AU"
LANGUAGE="en_AU"

export LANG LANGUAGE

to /etc/profile, you'de probably want to change it a bit if your not
in Oz

Cheers

Joel
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