perl 5.8.1, Mac OS, and locales

[Jim Anderson]

I don't know if this is a perl issue or a Mac OS issue. I just
installed perl5.8.1 and I getting the following error msgs each time I
run any perl script:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale setting:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I ran perl -V:d_setlocale and, in addition to the above warnings, got
d_setlocale='define';

The system locale info is in /usr/share/locale.

Any idea what's going on?

 

[Jon Bell]

I don't know if this is a perl issue or a Mac OS issue. I just
installed perl5.8.1 and I getting the following error msgs each time I
run any perl script:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale setting:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

It's a Mac OS X issue. See

<http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html>.

 

[Steve Lidie]

I don't know if this is a perl issue or a Mac OS issue. I just
installed perl5.8.1 and I getting the following error msgs each time I
run any perl script:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale setting:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I ran perl -V:d_setlocale and, in addition to the above warnings, got
d_setlocale='define';

The system locale info is in /usr/share/locale.

Any idea what's going on?

No , but a fix ia to unset the environment variable LANG. For
bash/sh and the likes:

EXPORT LANG=

 

[Jim Anderson]

It's a Mac OS X issue. See

<http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html>.

Thanks! Worded a treat.