Re: Strange ePerl behavior: $LANG

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Albert REINER wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi Albert,

[...]
>     ---- 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
[...]

You should have written
   setenv LANG de

Anyway, try
   setenv LC_ALL de_DE
to remove this warning (which is not related to WML, but to Perl).

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-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer


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