Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:49:46 -0500 (EST) From: Evan Leon <evan@officemail.starmedia.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange error messages in Perl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003031447360.4433-100000@officemail.starmedia.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003031439300.5396-100000@bellona.asdf.com>
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Evan Leon wrote:
> > I'm running 3.4-RELEASE, and I have been getting the following error
> > message every time Perl is called (a friend of mine has previously seen
> > the same error, but did not know what the cause was):
> >
> > bash-2.03$ perl -e 'print "hello!\n"'
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
> > LANG = (unset)
> > are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > hello!
> > bash-2.03$
>
> We ran into this issue as well, and it was "fixed" by just putting a
> .login.locale file in your home dir. Mine looks like this:
>
> setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO_8859-1
> setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO_8859-1
> setenv LANG en_US.ISO_8859-1
> setenv LESSCHARSET latin1
>
Thanks! Actually, I "fixed" the problem myself a few hours ago as well.
:)
I was poking around in /usr/share/locale and saw that ASCII and US_ASCII
were links to what appeared to be Italian. (strange!) So I removed the
ASCII file (okay, I'll admit. It was an accident) and Perl stopped
complaining.
Thanks again,
Evan Leon
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