locales settings

[Rudy Gevaert]

Tim Cutts wrote:
> 
> 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

If I do debconf-get-selections I already get:

   locales locales/default_environment_locale      select  None

(I haven't defined anything in my config, so it's the default)

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