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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      x@asdf.com
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange error messages in Perl
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003031439300.5396-100000@bellona.asdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003021338080.59951-100000@officemail.starmedia.com>

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We ran into this issue as well, and it was "fixed" by just putting a
.login.locale file in your home dir. Mine looks like this:

setenv LC_ALL   en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LANG en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LESSCHARSET latin1


-Dan

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Evan Leon wrote:
> I'm running 3.4-RELEASE, and I have been getting the following error
> message every time Perl is called (a friend of mine has previously seen
> the same error, but did not know what the cause was):
> 
> bash-2.03$ perl -e 'print "hello!\n"'
> 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.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> hello!
> bash-2.03$ 
<SNIP>



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