how to solve Ubuntu setlocale() warning

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:30:18AM -0400, bob 295 wrote:
> Here is what I get when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 
> ======= begin snip =============
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = "en_US",
> 	LANG = "en_US"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
> Generating locales...
>   en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
> Generation complete.
> 
> ====== end snip =========
> 
> This is an Ubuntu system and if I understand things it won't prompt me for 
> locales like it does on a true Debian system.

Well it has en_US generated, so that should be OK.

You can probably make it prompt by changing the priority.

I think it is dpkg-reconfigure -p low locales

But that doesn't appear to be the issue.

No idea why it says it can't use locale en_US when it clearly has that
locale generated.  Unless something is broken and makes it think it
can't use the .UTF8 version.

You could try setting LC_ALL and LANG to en_US.UTF8 and see if that helps.

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Len Sorensen
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