On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:01:29 -0400 Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote: >Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: >> >>>tallison@isengard:~$ man passwd >>>man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct >>>Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... >> >> >> What do you have them set to? I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG" >> (in .profile) with the following in locale.gen: "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8". >> As some man pages contain stuff that do not render right, I often do: >> LANG=C man ... > > I don't have a ~/.profile, just /etc/profile. > And that doesn't have anything for LANG. > In fact, when I 'echo $LANG' I get.. nothing. Sounds like you didn't generate and configure locales at installation? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-l10n should help. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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