Re: Locale Problem
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:58:26 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:18:49PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>>
>>> I get the following error messages whenever I update or install a program
>>> with aptitude:
>>>
>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The simplest thing would be to set export LANG=en_US (or similar) in
>> your bashrc. But the proper way would be to run dpkg-reconfigure
>> locales and choose only the locales you are intersted in and set the
>> right default locale.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Kumar
>>
> I have run the "dpkg-reconfigure locales" command numerous times. Here is
> the output of my /etc/locale.gen file:
>
> root@apple /etc # less locale.gen
> # This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list
> # of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Other
> # combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change
> # this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.
> #
>
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15
> root@apple /etc #
>
> And, here is what I have in my bash.bashrc file:
>
> export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"
I think that should be
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
> export LANG="en_US"
> export LANGUAGE="en_US"
>
> And, I get the error about the missing locale files. If I change the
> "export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" to "export LC_ALL="en_US" then I do not
> get the error from Perl. But, I do get the following output when I run
> 'aptitude update' which seems weird to me:
>
> Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable Release.gpg [378B]
> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Translation-en_US
> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en_US
>
> What seems weird to me is the "Translation-en_US" part. I don't have that
> output if I use hte UTF-8 version of the locale.
>
> I guess one of my main questions is, what LC_ALL, LANG, and LANGUAGE
> settings do I use for US/English?
AFAIK, it should be either "en_US" if you want to use ISO-8859-1
encoding, en_US.ISO-8859-15 for ISO-8859-15, or en_US.UTF-8 for UTF-8.
Just setting LC_ALL should be enough since it forces all the other LC_*
variables and LANG to the same value. (You can check by running
"locale".) I don't think LANGUAGE is needed at all, LANG determines the
language of your localized messages.
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