locale error after install of 5.6

TQuid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I keep getting this error:

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "ISO8859-1",
        LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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I've looked at the locale man page and such, but am frankly clueless about how to set this up correctly. Here's the output of perl -V:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-stable, archname=i386-freebsd-thread-mu
+lti
    uname='freebsd tiresias.intergate.ca 4.0-stable freebsd 4.0-stable
+ #1: wed jun 28 04:47:13 gmt 2000 root@tiresias.intergate.ca:usrsrcsy
+scompiletiresias i386 '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duse5005threads -des'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=u
+ndef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+2
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-pthread -Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/mysql
    libs=-lm -lc_r -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at Jun 29 2000 12:46:48
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-freebsd-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-freebsd-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .
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Re: locale error after install of 5.6 by BlueLines (Hermit) on Jul 06, 2000 at 04:40 UTC
I just added the following in my .bashrc / .bash_profile files : `export LANG=en_US` [download] for tcsh, you can use: `setenv LANG en_US` [download] and if you use zsh, you can make it work correctly by first doing: rm `which zsh` ln -s `which bash \|\| which tcsh` /bin/zsh [download] and then following the above instructions :-) Note: one of these is a joke and the other two are serious.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: locale error after install of 5.6 by ZZamboni (Curate) on Jul 06, 2000 at 04:05 UTC
I had this problem too, and it seemed to be cause by the LANG environment variable having the value "(unset)". Undefining LANG solved the problem. --ZZamboni	[reply]
Re: locale error after install of 5.6 by TQuid (Sexton) on Jul 06, 2000 at 22:20 UTC
Thanks everyone. I found out I had a couple of bogus settings in an old .profile.locale file, imported from my account on a different machine. Eliminating them fixed the problem. --TQuid	[reply]