On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 02:43:27PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:03:48PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >> Running perl-5.8.0-1.3.0 on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE, I frequently see a message
> >> from perl scripts saying that it can't find the ``locale'' program.  It
> >> doens't seem to hurt anything, but is a bit annoying.
> >> 
> >> Is there something simple that I'm missing here?
> >> 
> >
> >I don't know about FreeBSD. But from my experience this points to
> >the fact that the "$LANG" or "$LC_*"-variables are not defined in the
> >environment or have a setting, that the localization functions do not
> >recognize. Look, whether you have a "man locale".
> >I always set "LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL" in shell scripts, for example,
> >because this most of the time gives the "expected" results.
> 
> In this case it appears to be looking for a ``locale'' executable program.
> This program is in the SuSE 8.2 Linux glibc RPM.

What is the _exact_ message, then ? Should not be that difficult to
cut&paste it into a mail. And isn't there a "man locale" ?


   (mk)


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LINUX: = DOS2000 :-P

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