Hi,
I own an Apple Powerbook running OS X v10.2.3 and recently decided to learn how to program in perl. Following the advice from the Apple Developers site I downloaded v5.8.0 from CPAN and installed the .pkg file. The installation went smoothly and then I did a version check in console to make sure that it had worked properly and got the following error: 
[Tybalt:/] lorna% perl -v
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

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After the error it listed the correct version and the lisence etc as normal. Is there anything I could/should do to fix those LC_ALL and LANG errors and will they affect me in any drastic way if I cannot? Thanks in advance :)
-Kevin

In reply to LC_ALL and LANG errors by Kevlar

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