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Re: how to change locale settings



On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 04:06:31PM -0400, Adam Black wrote:
>Hi again.
>
>OK so I recently switched to a non-UTF locale to un-break emacs (or to
>attempt to un-break it) and supposedly I switched to en_US the ISO one
>but now anytime i run any program I get the following error:
>
>warning: Setting locale failed.
>perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>       LANGUAGE = "en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en",
>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>       LANG = "en_CA.UTF-8"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
>perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>
>I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales but with no success, just the same
>error message.  any ideas?

Install the locales package. If it's already installed then re-configure
it.

/M

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