Re: locale?

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:48:03AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini (chiappa@uerj.br) wrote:
> > after apt-get upgrading to fetchmail 5.3.3-1.2. I got the follwing message 
> > 
> > Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main fetchmail 5.3.3-1.2 
> > [319kB]Fetched 15.2kB in 6s 
> > (2182B/s)                                                 
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >         LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >         LC_ALL = (unset),
> >         LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
> >     are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > 
> > what does it mean? How can I fix it?
> > Thanks in advance!
> 
>     $ su -
>     $ locale-gen
>     $ dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail

<release alert="not-for-potato">
	apparently "locale-gen" is only on testing and unstable;
	"no potato soup for you!" if you a stability-paranoids
	like me (according to packages.debian.org).
</release>

> ...I think.

any evidence to back up that claim? :)

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