Heitzso wrote: > > I run debian unstable and this morning, after updating, noticed that > 'man' complained about a bad LANG or LC_ setting. > > My LANG was set to 'english' and LC_CTYPE was set, > but set to blank or nothing, i.e. 'set' showed it but nothing > was after the equals sign.
I had a similar problem and it turned out to be gdm's fault: A previous version had for some reason set "english" as the default value for LANG (which to my knowledge is not a legal value, but I don't really know). If you use gdm, use the language dropdown from gdm to set "POSIX/C english" as the default, and see if that fixes your problem. If you don't use gdm, I can't help you. It took me ages to find it also. (This should probably be reported as a bug in the gdm package, but I've never gotten around to looking for it. It should probably check whether it's about to use a completely invalid value for LANG, and if so specifically ask you what language...) Stuart.
