This is driving me nuts.
Objective: Specify a locale value which:
- Renders standard shell output properly.
- Supports international (iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) charactersets.
- Is supported by common text-mode utilities such as vim, mutt, tin,
and w3m.
- Doesn't cause Perl to choke.
My current setting of LANG=en_US fails on the last three points.
International characters under mutt and other utilities appear as octal
representations.
Perl reports that the locale is not supported:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en-US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
I've run /usr/sbin/locale-gen as root. Checked FAQs and manpages.
Google turns up little of help, though there appears to be mention of
this problem on Debian lists.
Anyone? I mean, just shoot me now if I'm being stupid or something.
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