[ale] bash script error

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Mar 19 10:39:58 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 09:24 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 09:16:40 am James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > On Monday 19 March 2007 08:49:04 am James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > > check your environment and see if LANG=C or if there is a
> > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (or other UTF text format). I have found many perl
> > > > CPAN modules have gobs of problems unless I set LANG=C.
> > > >
>  
> >
> > So we were both right!! Yay! Working stuff is good.
> 
> ok, so I just checked LANG and:
> # echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> 
> 
> is that bad???

For _most_ things it's OK. But _some_ bash stuff and _some_ perl stuff
it will cause read errors with the files. There are a lot of perl
modules that don't support internationalization.
> 
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