hello, I'd tried a few different locales, for some reason it wasn't setting them. a dpkg-reconfigure did the trick, and I chose the en_us.utf8.utf8 or something like that--it fixed the problem. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 12:25 AM Subject: Re: locale issues > Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> I get this with man, and mostly anything using perl. >> svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale >> svn: warning: environment variable LANG is en_US.UTF-8 >> svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct > > > Try "aptitude -q install locales" I'm not sure if it's "locale" or > "locales" but I think it's locales or locales-all. You'll be shown a list > of hundreds of locales to choose from. Check and make sure the one you > want is selected. It will generate them and the problem will go away. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup