Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:16:59 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> To: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 & environment variables set in login.conf Message-ID: <20070603161659.GA50832@Gatekeeper.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <977966.60249.qm@web56506.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <977966.60249.qm@web56506.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On 2007-06-03 07:38 -0700, Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> wrote: > How do you export those variables successfully in > ~/.xsession? It still doesn't help with me. > > check this out: > > $ locale > LANG=en_US This is not a valid locale! You have a choice between: en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15 en_US.US-ASCII en_US.UTF-8 [...] > $ echo $LC_ALL > en_US > $ perl > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "en_US" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Yes, and perl tells you, that en_US just isn't specific enough for its needs ... It's up to you whether you prefer en_US.US-ASCII, en_US.ISO8859-1, or en_US.UTF-8 (e.g. depending on whether you at least occasionally work with foreign language texts). Regards, STefan
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