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Re: locale error messages



>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
>- -- 
>Go ahead try and spam me ...

So, if these variables aren't getting set during a new install of Woody, and
these variables are needed for the PERL package, where to do we report this
install "bug".  I asked before, but I didn't get a response.

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Eric Nute <lybrandnute@flashmail.com>
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