[linux-help] Re: Setting locale in Debian

[John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>]

>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
>
>- Nate >>

All this did was change the value displayed for LANG. Otherwise, I 
still get the same messages as shown above.

What files are changed/referenced by locales? The only one that I 
found that I would edit is /etc/profile (similar to Nate's solution). 
I'm still not sure what got changed to start these warnings in the 
first place.

John
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