* Manuel Bouyer (bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr) Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:03:06PM +0100:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:23:32AM -0800, paul wrote:
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >        LC_ALL = (unset),
> >        LANG = "en_US.ISO8859-1"
> >    are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> I'm not sure you want to set LANG to this.
> LANG is used as default if the corresponding LC_* isnt' set. LC_ALL has the
> same role and takes precedence over LANG.
> 
> LANG is also used by the XPG3 nls system, hence some confusion.
> 
> What you need here is to set LC_CTYPE to en_US.ISO8859-1 and unset LANG.

What do I do, if I want, e.g. German error messages in a shell which I
get after setting of LANG=de? And I need the LC_CTYPE setting for
things like mutt which should show the correct characters. My output
looks like this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "de_DE.ISO8859-1",
        LANG = "de"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

So, what is the correct solution here?

Many thanks in advance,
Björn

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