Strange ePerl behavior: $LANG

["Albert REINER" <nospam@thanx>]

Hi all,

I only recently became aware of WML, read about it, downloaded and
installed it, and I think that I will like it very much once I get the
hang of it. However, I have consistently been seeing some strange
behavior with the ePerl-step (I'm using what once was a SuSE-Linux
5.3, kernel 2.0.35):


my trivial input file:
    $ cat x.wml
    foo
    bar

now I try to run wml on it:
    $ wml x.wml
    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    	    LC_ALL = (unset),
    	    LC_CTYPE = "de_DE",
    	    LANG = "de"
    	are supported and installed on your system.
    perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
    ePerl:Error: Perl runtime error (interpreter rc=0)
    
    ---- Contents of STDERR channel: ---------
    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    	    LC_ALL = (unset),
    	    LC_CTYPE = "de_DE",
    	    LANG = "de"
    	are supported and installed on your system.
    perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
    ------------------------------------------
    ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 3 (rc=74).
It seems something has gone quite wrong. (N.B.: when using Perl I also
get those warnings, but I always just ignore them and everything works
fine).

Now I unset $LANG, and everything works fine:
    $ unset LANG
    $ wml  x.wml
    foo
    bar

And now I reset $LANG to its old value, but there are no warnings any
more!
    $ set LANG="de"
    $ wml  x.wml
    foo
    bar

Is this a known problem, or am I doing something obviously wrong? For
me this is not very important, as I don't think I actually need $LANG
in the environment, but still I would appreciate any help in fixing
this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Albert.


P.S.: This is the first post to this list, and I don't know whether or
not it is customary to introduce oneself here. Just in case, I am
usually a physics student (working on my doctoral thesis on
theoretical fluid physics), but currently I am doing my compulsory
military service. I live in Vienna, Austria, Europe. Oh, and I am
interested in Esperanto (and this has something to do with why I think
WML will make the web-part of my life much easier).

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Albert Reiner                                   <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at>
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