[wplug] Perl question

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Robert Terwilliger assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Hey all,
| 
| I did a manual install of Perl from the latest stable source (5.8.0) and
| answered a battery of questions during the install. Somehow I must have
| answered one or two incorrectly, as I get these statements (below) every
| time I use a utility that invokes Perl. Perl seems to work FINE; however, I
| get this series of warnings EVERY TIME. If I run a utility that invokes Perl
| 100 times, then I watch the terminal output in an effort to interpret the
| output of the utility but get dizzy from all the repetitive repetitive
| repetitive Perl warnings. Any suggestions?
| 
| I have gone to the Perl website, looked through mail list archives, and
| consulted my "Perl in a Nutshell" to no end.
| 
| Also, any pointers to specific URLs that might address this issue would be
| helpful.
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Robert Terwilliger (a.k.a. Side Show Bob)
| 
| *****************************
| 
| perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
| perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
|         LC_ALL = (unset),
|         LANG = "en_US"

what does 

# export |grep LANG 

produce?

for some reason the default value of the LANG environment varaible set by
redhat really messes things up. you can set it manually and see if perl
behaves normally. 

# export LANG=en_us

# perl 


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