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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Viren R.Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Locale issues on -current
Message-ID:  <14716.36682.601114.318034@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000724105102.A96976@mithrandr.moria.org>
References:  <14712.37803.399020.756017@vorpal.rstcorp.com> <397948EF.C1C7C396@gorean.org> <20000724105102.A96976@mithrandr.moria.org>

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>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> writes:

 Neil> On Sat 2000-07-22 (00:10), Doug Barton wrote:
 >> > I installed a recent snapshot of -current (a week ago) and I keep
 >> > getting the following warnings:
 >> > 
 >> > [vshah@vorpal] /etc> perl
 >> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 >> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 >> >         LC_ALL = (unset),
 >> >         LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
 >> >         LANG = (unset)
 >> >     are supported and installed on your system.
 >> 
 >> I get the same thing. It's LC_CTYPE that's causing the problem. I was half
 >> thinking that it was something related to gnome, but I haven't worked very
 >> hard to fix it. Unsetting that variable makes the warning go away, whether
 >> that fixes the problem or not.

 Neil> Viren: Is that in an X session, possibly running gnome?

 Neil> I've had this too.  Never have figured what it was about, but it
 Neil> happened only in X, where I use gnome.

Yes, it is gnome. And, as Doug suggested, it stops when you unset
LC_CTYPE. I don't think it is actually doing anything other than
irritating me. :-)


 Neil> Neil

Thanks
Viren
-- 
Viren R. Shah, viren@rstcorp.com, http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah/
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 Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!'
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