Philip Guenther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:26:05PM -0600, Philip Guenther wrote:
...
I found a workaround:
# ln -s /usr/share/locale/en_GB.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8
That seems like a really bad idea to me. UTF-8 and ISO8859-1 are
fundamentally different: UTF-8 uses variable-length characters while
ISO8859-* uses fixed-width (8bit) characters. Giving the locale calls
the same data for those two is likely to result in incorrect behavior
for all characters >127. Wouldn't it be better to simply not lie and
just set the locale to en_US.ISO8859-1?
Doesn't work for me either:
$ LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1 perl -e 1
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
[...]
$ LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 perl -e 1
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
[...]
The specific locale category involved in the original query was LC_CTYPE:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset)
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
OpenBSD does include LC_CTYPE support for ISO8859-1:
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-1 perl -e 1
$
Philip Guenther
Fwiw, as said, rebooted the system.
Installed (make install clean) some p5-* modules
and other modules via cpan
No error/warning messages.
Didn't change any /etc/logib.conf or ~/.profile from stock
Was prepared to prepend installs with
env LC_ALL="C" (old Linux rembrances, in the first weeks they switched
to UTF-8)
not even needed.
OpenBSD GENERIXCis "C" by default. Basta!
So, there must be a culprit somewhere who did change LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
(empty directory) but forgot to restore the env as it was found. Bah!
Bah! Sure this is a GNU thinghie :-)
"Culprit somewhere", in my case, the -snapshot (c.45) then some 200 make
package (cvs June 13): sorry, can't drill down.
Anyway, I was sleeping while the puter was busy.
