11.2_update & now: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

[Linda Walsh]

I'm having problems with a core dump in perl and thought to try
updating my 11.2 dist w/the latest updates from the suse 11.2_update
server, one of which was a minor update to perl. It didn't solve
that problem, unfortunately, but it did create a new one for
me: Bonus! (ARG!).

Now I'm getting a warning spit out in various utils at frequent
intervals, like in BASH, every time I use auto-complete (!):

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

It also happens in other programs like when I launch gvim:

(process:22785): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

Anyone know what broke and how I can fix it?

My env vars haven't changed -- the lang vars are set to :

# printenv | egrep 'LANG|LC'
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8


I love UTF-8, but the implementation might have better given the
acronym, 'UPF-8' for Universal _P_ain Format. *sigh*

Help?
Thanks...

[Patrick Shanahan]

Post by Linda Walsh
# printenv | egrep 'LANG|LC'
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

try setting LANG to LANG=POSIX

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