Re: [SOLVED] locale issue with Matlab 6.1 and JVM?

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:59:57AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:56:09PM -0500, Warren A. Layton wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:37:30PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > 
> > > Running matlab 6.1 on current woody give me a JVM error about which
> > > Mathworks gives a report:
> > > 
> > > http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/27132.shtml
> > > 
> > > This is a complete non sense for me. I used a LANG=C or LANG=en_US
> > > setup. No results.
> > > JVM is BD 1.1.8 and they add their own copy of jdk1.1 with native threads.. 
> > > My current trial is to use woody jdk1.1 instead apparently with again
> > > with no results (but this could be a problem of mine in building a valid
> > > tree for using the local pkg).
> > > 
> > > Ideas? I do not know if this should be considered a matlab-specific
> > > problem or not...
> > 
> > I had a similar problem. Do you have the locales package installed?
> > 
> > Warren
> 
> Bingo! 
> That was a fresh woody installation (done from floppies (11-14 edition) + net), 
> and apparently locales tables has not been generated at all 
> at installation time. I think it's an issue for locales install
> at that time - anyway I'll keep an eye on reported bugs.
> In fact also /etc/environment was absent.
> I solved by dpkg-reconfigure locales and generating needed tables.
> All works fine now also with non en_US setup (ie LANG=italian)
> 
> 

Ok. It's a known issue with locales, ie #118344.
To me it seems that LANG=C is the only valid set after installation, 
not even en_US. Followup to bugs.

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Francesco P. Lovergine