Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:24:18 -0800 From: Rogelio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rodr=EDguez?= <rogelio@eml.cc> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting locales Message-ID: <20031211182418.GA45152@simia.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20031211130518.GB54995@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20031211130518.GB54995@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Odhiambo Washington (2003-12-11):
> Hiya,
>
> I set the following locales in my .bash_profile:
>
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>
> But I get these warnings when I try to run some script:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
> LC_COLLATE = "C",
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
>
>
> How do I install the missing locales?
misc/utf8locale
NB: Currently, the freebsd ncurses library is not exactly ready
for unicode methinks. ncurses 5.3 (ncursesw) is probably best.
But, if you --enable-widec (to get ncursesw) in devel/ncurses you
get a compilation error.
Cheers,
--
Rogelio
ECCE HOMO
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