On Tue, Oct 16 at 11:56, john lewis wrote:
> Why do I need to have a US locale on my system?
You don't but it does help with some dumb binary packages.
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> Per: warning: Please check your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> Lang = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
>
> I live and work in the UK and have no intention whatsoever of going
> to the USA and so removed all locales except en_GB.UTF-8 , so why
> doesn't perl accept this.
Uhm how did you "remove" the locales ? Locales can be quite distributed
over the system.
A quick search for directories on my system suggest you should
check:
/usr/share/i18n/locales/
/usr/share/locale/
/usr/lib/locale/
As a mininum plus numerous package specific locations. Then you'll
need to track down all the package config file references although
a setting in your .profile should catch override most of them. Mine
contains:
# I prefer the old C lexical ordering so capitalised filenames come first.
# Also like my file times with a 3 char month rather than numeric
# export LC_ALL=C
export LC_COLLATE=C
export LC_TIME=C
export LANG=en_GB
export LANGUAGE=en_GB
Of course on gentoo you just set /etc/locale.gen before you build :-)
Mine contains:
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
Hope this prompts some ideas.
ps. Whilst checking a few locations for this mail I spotted that I
had a Ukrainian spelling dictionary installed (-uk). I deleted that
whilst I was at it.
--
Bob Dunlop
