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Re: dpkg and locales



On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:58:42AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I've started getting the following error messages when I
> 'apt-get install' some package:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> 	LANGUAGE = "en_US",
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> 	LC_COLLATE = "C",
> 	LC_CTYPE = "en_US.ISO-8859-15",
> 	LANG = "en_US"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> What do I have wrong? The output of 'locale' is:
> 
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15

Looks like you haven't got the en_US.ISO-8859-15 locale properly
installed. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'?

(Actually, is ISO-8859-15 even supported for en_US? I wouldn't have
thought there'd be much demand for the Euro character over there.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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