Locale problem with perl

From: Angus Mackenzie (angus_at_romsley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/30/04

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    I do apologise if I have selected the wrong mailing list here

    I am running Sarge on a 450 MHz Pentium III system with 300+ Meg of memory,
    hoping to build something a bit more up to date soon.

    I have been struggling to print to a Windows printer using CUPS. The best I
    have done is to get textual Postscript from the XP-connected Epson CX5400.
    Whilst tailing the error log to try to find out what is going wrong I have
    noticed the commonly reported locale problem cropping up; I don't think it
    has any real bearing on my printing problem but it's good to eliminate
    error messages anyway.

    I get (retyped)
    perl: warning: Setting locale failed
    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset)
    LC_ALL = (unset)
    LANG = 'en'
    are supported and installed on your system

    OK, I googled, read the first fifty messages and reinstalled my locales a
    couple of times

    I set and exported the locale settings to hopefully sensible values guided
    by pod/perllocale and then set the values in /etc/environment (IIRC)

    angus@mopp:~$ locale -a
    C
    en_GB
    en_GB.iso88591
    en_GB.utf8
    POSIX

    angus@mopp:~$ echo $LC_ALL
    en_GB

    angus@mopp:~$ echo $LANGUAGE
    en_GB:en_GB.iso88591:en_GB.utf8

    angus@mopp:~$ echo $LANG
    en_GB.iso88591

    I get the same results as root (as I guess you would expect)

    I still get the same error messages from perl: on reflection I have had
    them when 'apt-get dist-upgrade'ing since I upgraded from Woody to Sarge
    three months ago.

    Why does perl find LANGUAGE and LC_ALL to be unset when as far as I can see
    they are set to reasonable values?

    Why does perl think LANG = 'en' when I have tried en_GB and en_GB.iso88591?
    Surely it isn't choking on the underscore character?

    How does perl pick up the environment variables?

    Thanks for any insight you can offer

    Angus Mackenzie 

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Angus A Mackenzie           
Consultant Anaesthetist             
                                            
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