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.

Bill
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