Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:35:15AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I
> start some application from the command line, I get these messages:
> 
>   perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>   perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>   	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> 	LC_CTYPE = "",
> 	LANG = "en.ISO-8859-1"
>       are supported and installed on your system.
>   perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> Can someone point me to a fix for this? 

here's my setup--

	% printenv | grep "LC|LANG" | sort
	LANG=C
	LC_CTYPE=en_US

	% egrep "\\<LC|LANG" /etc/environment ~/.??*
	/etc/environment:LANG=C
	/home/will/.cshrc:setenv LC_CTYPE en_US

also try

	% locale
	LANG=C
	LC_CTYPE=en_US
	LC_NUMERIC="C"
	LC_TIME="C"
	LC_COLLATE="C"
	LC_MONETARY="C"
	LC_MESSAGES="C"
	LC_ALL=

(man locale)

you might put such commands in your .login or .bashrc
files to get the same setup on every log-in. there may
even be a utility that'll set this up for you, and if so,
surely someone wiser than me will tell you about it,
Any Minute Now. :)

does that help?

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #28 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Would you like to have rxvt show you useful information in the
TITLE BAR of its X window? For example, to see your "present
working directory" in the title bar, include this in your bash
command prompt string:
	export PS1="\e]0;\w^G\u@\h$ "
Anything between the "\e]0;" and the control-G will be displayed
as the title of the rxvt window. (For data entry, you may need to
precede the ^G with ^V.)

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...