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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Fix to "NLSPATH=<none>" problem
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:08:20 -0400

Do we have a gotcha's page in the wiki? Things like taht should be
added.

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:03 +0000, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Tired of seeing "Failed to open the message catalog man on the path
> NLSPATH=<none>" whenever I tried to run man, I started hunting down what
> the heck this NLSPATH thing was and why it was screwing with my man
> command. It's used by gettext to locate a locale-specific message catalog,
> and having it not set is OK (ie: there is defined behavior for that). The
> problem (at least on my system) is there was no locale selected for my
> user. This was easily fixed:
> # export LANG=en_US
>
> This sets the locale for my current user to English, US. Run "man" again
> and voila! No error message! Of course you need to have the selected
> locale installed. :)
>
> I hope this helps someone else out there!
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com
>
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