Re: man locale problems.

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Chris Metzler wrote:
> 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

I thought I fixed it, but then it appears that I haven't.  Since these 
machines will be used a lot with Perl, I really need to get this fixed. 
 As much as I hate to think this, I may have to run a dpkg-reconfigure 
simply because "something went wrong".

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory