[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some problems setting my locales to German on my woody install. > The task package for German settup produced the file /etc/lanuage-de > which seems to be set some environment variables, but it is not executed > > or sourced by any other startup script. The documentation also suggests > to set LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 which leads to warnings like this: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" > are supported and installed on your system. > > On my potato machine a simple LANG=DE_de was sufficient for that matter.
This would normally be set in /etc/environment. Not sure if this is in woody: apt-get install localeconf -- Simon Hepburn.