Re: [Hampshire] Perl warning

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:39:06PM +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
> > 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/

dpkg-reconfigure locales will deal with all of that, as far as I'm
aware. You simply tell it which locales you want available on the
system.

> 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

Those variables will be set by /etc/default/locale and
/etc/environment on D***** systems (I'm not sure which one will
override the other).

> 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

There is a configuration file of this name on D*****. I suspect
that it's written by the config scripts for the "locales" package, and
used when the package regenerates the locale data (usually on
upgrade).

Hugo.

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