Re: Another Perl 5.8 Problem

[Robin]

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 03:36 PM, Jens-Christoph Brendel wrote:

I hope I don't getting on your nerves,

no don't worry you're looking for a solution, been there meself. But maybe we're talking about different errors - the solution I'm offering is for the following error:

"perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "de"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin-thread-multi "

This still being the case the error is thrown up because LC_ALL, the default locale, is not set

but your explanation do not fit to my observations. Before I set "LC_LANG=C" in the environment.plist I got the mentioned error message by example after I entered "perl -v" in a terminal window by example.

that sounds correct - the default locale for perl isn't set - perl complains

There is no 'use locale' pragma but perl didn't ignored the "LANG=de" setting in my shell environment.

presumably you ran this in the shell which would also be consistent - the shell adds the missing ENV variable for LANG, but you didn't get the shell to set LC_ALL=C

With these settings (LC_ALL unset, LANG=de in the shell environment)

and this is the point I believe you're missing - LC_ALL must be set to C or perl complains. Have you tried setting it?
The whole of the locale machinery is built around the fact this constant will be there and that is what the (above) warning is saying:

"I can't find a value for LC_ALL but so you can get pattern matching and comparisions of data I'm defaulting to the C locale anyway, you might want to check into things your end"

HTH

Robin