Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Believe me, most professional UNIX users in Germany don't have LANG > set correctly (including me). For example, I don't like to see German > error messages since I'm used to the English ones. In fact, I never > got used to the German way of handling computers. The German keyboard > is awkward for programmers...
If you want English error messages but ISO-8859-1 you could use something like LANG=en.ISO8859-1 or LANG=en LC_CTYPE=de_DE or LANG=de LC_MESSAGES=en (However, I don't know which of those actually works with Debian 2.2.)