How do I fix this locale problem?

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Duane Morin wrote:
>I seem to have updated something along the line on my Redhat6.2 box that is
>causing almost every application to throw a warning about the locale.  Each
>app throws it differently, but they all have the same information --
>
>perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>	LANGUAGE = (unset),
>	LC_ALL = (unset),
>	LANG = "en"
>    are supported and installed on your system.
>perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
>This doesn't seem to crash anything, but it's annoying, especially on code
>like the Gimp where it throws this message many, many times.  What controls
>this, and how can I fix it?

I seem to recall having this problem at one time as well.
Those are environment variables which you can set.
Those ones in particular are documented in `perldoc perllocale`,
where it explains exactly that error message and how to fix the
problem.

For what it's worth, when I look for those environment variables
on my system, I get the following:

    bash$ set | fgrep LANG
    LANG=en_US
    bash$ set | fgrep LC_
    bash$

I've read that LANG is looked up as a last resort, so maybe the
setting you have -- "en" -- isn't a valid value for the LANG
environment variable. You might first try setting LANG to the
value I have and see if the warnings go away.

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