[linux-help] Re: Setting locale in Debian

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:17:25PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> 
> For the last few weeks, every time I install a package, and sometimes 
> when I just run a program, I get the following error:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>          LANGUAGE = "en.ISO8859-1",
>          LC_ALL = "en.ISO8859-1",
>          LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
>      are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> I've tried a few solutions I've found online, including reinstalling 
> the locale package, but nothing helps. Any suggestions?

You might try adding the following to either ~/.bashrc or
~/.bash_profile (I source .bashrc from .bash_profile for those things I
wan to be common between login and non-login shells, aliases, etc.):

export LANG=en_US

I found that cleared up many locale related issues including special
characters in Mutt, Netscape, and Mozilla.

- Nate >>

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