locales settings

[Tim Cutts]

On 6 Jun 2007, at 8:05 am, Rudy Gevaert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since I started installing etch I get this error (when something  
> uses perl):
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = (unset),
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     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
>
>
> I haven't got a thing in my fai config space saying a thing about  
> locales.
>
> I can let the messages go away by installing the locales packages  
> and setting that locale as installed.  But that doesn't solve my  
> question. Where is it set that the locale must be "en_US.UTF-8" ?
>

Set the locale you want in the FAI debconf settings.  For example, we  
don't set a default locale here, so /srv/fai/config/debconf/FAIBASE  
contains:

locales locales/default_environment_locale      select  None

but we also do generate a standard set of locales, so we also have  
the following line:

locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect     en_GB  
ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8,  
en_GB.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_IE ISO-8859-1, en_IE.UTF-8 UTF-8,  
en_IE at euro ISO-8859-15, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15  
ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Regards,

Tim


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