[ale] locale settings

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 22:05:16 EDT 2008


Be aware that perls CPAN breaks with anything but LANG=C
RedHat derivatives set LANG=en_US.utf8 which causes misery on CPAN.

2008/8/27 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:58 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Anyone know how to check for the locale setting in Fedora 9? When I do
> > locale -a all I get is a long a$$ list of all possible languages. I
> > thought that I had it set to en_UTF-8.
>
> Just plain "locale" ought to do it:
>
> Wednesday, 2008-Aug-27 at 21:53:44 - mbt at zest - Linux v2.6.24
> Ubuntu Hardy:[0-3/532-0]:~> locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> You can set LC_ALL if you want, though I don't, since everything else is
> already set up for me in my profile.
>
>        --- Mike
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