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• Locales (Score:3, Insightful)

  by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2003.08.06 15:15 (#22842) Homepage Journal

  Turn them off now. They'll do you no good at all and they'll fuck up your ls output (Which eejit decicided to sort case insensitively with locales turned on?).

  Oh, and they'll fuck your postgres databases too if you have one. And probably more stuff I haven't discovered and never will because I TURNED THE FUCKERS OFF.

  The only sane thing to do on a RedHat box is sudo rm -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n. People who want locales can turn 'em on on a per user basis.

  Keep looking at the quotes at the bottom of each use.perl page. There's a good one from Jarkko about locales.

  -Dom

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  • Re:Locales (Score:1)

    by barbie (2653)

    From the experience I've just had that would be a good idea. Since installing RH9, not being able to install DateTime, which relies on Module::Build, has stopped me testing and releasing Calender::List. I had figured when the question came up on install, my language option would be for the system dictionary. Silly me. Deleting might be a good way to go.
    • Re:Locales (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      Heh, my colleague had enourmous problems building perl modules from CPAN on RH9. When he turned locales off, everything just worked.

      It's a real shame; locales are a nice idea at heart, just badly implemented in practise.

      -Dom