W Paul Mills wrote: > > This all seems to have something to do with libc and a wg15-locale > package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to > start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you > set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than > all the trash it puts on your screen when perl programs are run. > As more programs depend on these features, it may become more of an > issue. >
Bingo! You hit the nail on the head. It all seems to have started since I installed StarOffice. *************** Here is what is in /usr/share/locale: vtorrico# cd /usr/share/locale locale# dir da_DK en_GB fr_CA kl_GL pl_PL de en_IE fr_CH ko pt de_AT en_US fr_FR locale.alias pt_PT de_BE es fr_LU lt_LT ro_RO de_CH es_ES gr_GR lv_LV ru_RU de_DE et_EE hr_HR nl sl_SI de_LU fi_FI hu_HU nl_BE sv en fo_FO is_IS nl_NL sv_FI en_CA fr it_IT no_NO sv_SE en_DK fr_BE iw_IL pl locale# *************** Here is what is in /usr/lib/X11/locale: vtorrico# cd /usr/lib/X11/locale locale# dir C iso8859-3 iso8859-8 ko th_TH.TACTIS compose.dir iso8859-4 iso8859-9 koi8-r zh en_US.utf iso8859-5 ja locale.alias zh_TW iso8859-1 iso8859-6 ja.JIS locale.dir iso8859-2 iso8859-7 ja.SJIS tbl_data locale# *************** Thanks so much to the many guys and dolls who replyed to this thread. Your help is much appreciated. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
