[SOLVED]man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are corre

Archie_Enthusiasm · 2010-12-18 17:18:21

Hi guys,

I use zsh as my shell. Whenever I open a manual for an application by doing:

man `the name of the application`

it always says "man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct". I actually set the locale in my .zshrc file as you can see below:

# locales
export LC_ALL=""
export LC_COLLATE=C
export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8

So my question is why this is happening? Is my locales configuration wrong? I have US ENglish as my language option both for my arch OS and all the apps running on it.

Thanks

Last edited by Archie_Enthusiasm (2010-12-20 23:46:00)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-12-18 17:57:53

paste the output of locale and locale -a

Archie_Enthusiasm · 2010-12-19 20:12:29

Hi guys,

sorry for responding too late.

> locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_EN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

Mr Green · 2010-12-19 20:58:46

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

Check wiki, see if anything helps...

Archie_Enthusiasm · 2010-12-19 22:01:52

Yes,
I have already seen the wiki.

In my rc.conf I also have the default locale en_US.UTF-8.

> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep LOCALE
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"

What I do not understand is where this locale command tries to find a file:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

No such file or directory? Is there a file named LC_CTYPE or what? I do not understand how this locale stuff works.

I also have the following in my .zshrc file.

# locales
export LC_ALL=""
export LC_COLLATE=C
export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8

llawwehttam · 2010-12-19 22:59:38

Have you run

sudo locale-gen

?

Archie_Enthusiasm · 2010-12-20 13:36:05

I have run it.

It just completes as it should. But I am still getting the same error.

> man locale
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

This "man" somehow can not set the locale. I think it is nothing to do with the system configuration. this is only this specific command program. When I change from zsh to bash and then execute for example "man locale", it also gives the same error.

Mr Green · 2010-12-20 14:00:53

have you got anything in autostart.sh?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-12-20 15:33:55

Archie_Enthusiasm wrote:

Hi guys,
sorry for responding too late.
> locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_EN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

en_EN is not a valid locale. Set it to en_US or en_GB instead.

Archie_Enthusiasm · 2010-12-20 20:56:52

Now I have this in my rc.conf file. (I commented out the old one and set the locale as you suggested to en_US)

LOCALE="en_US"
#LOCALE="en_EN.UTF-8"

I also generated the locale again :

> sudo locale-gen
Password:
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.

Now the output of locale and locale -a are:

> locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_EN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_EN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
__________________________________

> locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

What i have in my .zshrc file is the following:

# locales
export LC_ALL=""
export LC_COLLATE=C
export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8

But it still does not work. You meant that I should change the locale value in rc.conf file to en_US right?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-12-20 21:08:24

reboot or export the locale by hand. Editing rc.conf doesn't make it change by magic.

stryitg · 2017-04-12 19:38:22

Hi,

export LANG=C
made it for me

WorMzy · 2017-04-12 19:48:38

Please do not necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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#1 2010-12-18 17:18:21

[SOLVED]man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are corre

#2 2010-12-18 17:57:53

Re: [SOLVED]man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are corre

#3 2010-12-19 20:12:29

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#4 2010-12-19 20:58:46

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