Re: perl and utf8

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:44:58 +0900, Anne Bennett 
<anne%porcupine.montreal.qc.ca@localhost> wrote:

> Perl (perl-5.10.0nb6 from pkgsrc-2009Q3, on NetBSD-5.0.1, i386,
> compiled with "make") doesn't like me any more since I set a
> utf8 locale; it says:
>
>      perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>      perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>              LC_ALL = (unset),
>              LC_CTYPE = "en_CA.UTF-8",
>              LC_COLLATE = "C",
>              LANG = "en_CA.UTF-8"
>          are supported and installed on your system.
>      perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> My locale settings are:
>
>    LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"
>    LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
>    LC_COLLATE="C"
>    LC_TIME="C"
>    LC_NUMERIC="C"
>    LC_MONETARY="C"
>    LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
>    LC_ALL=""

Just workaround:
exactly set LC_COLLATE=C LC_NUMERIC=C or PERL_BADLANG=0.

> and "locale -a" *does* return en_CA.UTF-8 as one of its entries.
> The locale seems to work correctly otherwise, as far as I can
> tell so far.
>
> Perl has no objection to en_CA.ISO8859-1, though.
>
> Where do I look to fix this?  I know it can be done; at work on Fedora
> and Scientific Linux systems I have "en_CA.utf8", and perl works fine.
> The compilation of Perl at work had no special options set.
>
> Anne.


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