I run debian unstable and this morning, after updating, noticed that 'man' complained about a bad LANG or LC_ setting.
My LANG was set to 'english' and LC_CTYPE was set, but set to blank or nothing, i.e. 'set' showed it but nothing was after the equals sign. I started trying to track this down and cannot determine where LANG and LC_CTYPE is being set. It's not in any of my profile/bash startup files, i.e. I grepped _all_ /etc and ~/.* files looking for it and nada. I tracked down /usr/share/doc/locales but there are no clues in its README. I ran man against locale and a couple of other likely suspects and couldn't find info there (by info I mean where LANG and LC_CTYPE is typically set). I temp fixed by tracking down /etc/locale.alias and hand modified it to add the 'english' alias but I assume this alias file will be overwritten at some future date. I also dug through three O'Reilly books, Running Linux 3rd, Linux in a Nutshell 3rd, and Learning Debian GNU/Linux. So I cannot be faulted for not trying to dig. What have I missed and how can this be doc'ed so the average desktop user isn't totally freaked and rips linux off his/her computer? Heitzso
