Re: Problems with locales

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

chris@sgoc.de wrote:

> I have some problems setting my locales to German on my woody install.
> The task package for German settup produced the file /etc/lanuage-de
> which seems to be set some environment variables, but it is not executed
>
> or sourced by any other startup script. The documentation also suggests
> to set LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 which leads to warnings like this:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
>
> On my potato machine a simple LANG=DE_de was sufficient for that matter.

This would normally be set in /etc/environment. Not sure if this is in woody:
 
apt-get install localeconf

-- 
Simon Hepburn.