RE: locale not set properly

["Jeff Bonner" <jeff@integralogic.com>]

On Tues 22 Jan 2002 21:13 EDT, "Colin Watson" wrote:

> > Whenever I "man foo" I get this error:
> > 
> >   (null): can't set the locale, make sure $LC_* and $LANG 
> are correct
> 
> This means that the setlocale() call failed. (I added this 
> because it made it *much* easier to track down certain kinds 
> of problems.)

I wish I knew what I'd done to screw this up.  This is the first time in
several recent Woody installations that it happened.  Only thing I can
think of is selecting both ISO-8559-1 and UTF-8 at the same time.

BTW, whatever was wrong also gave this unruly behavior...

  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
          LANGUAGE = (unset),
          LC_ALL = (unset),
          LC_CTYPE = "",
          LANG = "en_US"
      are supported and installed on your system.
  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

In any case, "dpkg-reconfigure locales", as suggested by Tatsuya
Kinoshita, did fix both of these issues.  Now, I still have those same
empty values for LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL, but they don't seem to have any
adverse effect.

Thanks guys!

Jeff Bonner