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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /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. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
