Re: man locale problems.
From: Chris Metzler (cmetzler_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:09:12 -0400 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:01:29 -0400
Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
>Allan Wind wrote:
>> On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote:
>>
>>>tallison@isengard:~$ man passwd
>>>man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>>>Reformatting passwd(1), please wait...
>>
>>
>> What do you have them set to? I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG"
>> (in .profile) with the following in locale.gen: "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8".
>> As some man pages contain stuff that do not render right, I often do:
>> LANG=C man ...
>
> I don't have a ~/.profile, just /etc/profile.
> And that doesn't have anything for LANG.
> In fact, when I 'echo $LANG' I get.. nothing.
Sounds like you didn't generate and configure locales at
installation?
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-l10n
should help.
-c
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