Re: locales & perl [solved]

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from s. keeling:
> Hi.  I've figured out how to supply/generate my chosen locale
> (dpkg-reconfigure locales), and now I have:
> 
>    export LC_ALL="en_CA.ISO-8859-1"
>    export LANG="en_CA.ISO-8859-1"
>    export LANGUAGE="en_CA.ISO-8859-1"
> 
> in my ~/.bash_profile, but perl doesn't appear to get it:
> 
>    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

As root:

  - add your locale to /etc/locale.gen

      en_CA ISO-8859-1

  - add your locale alias to /etc/locale.alias

      en_CA           en_CA.ISO-8859-1

  - run "locale-gen"


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