perl locale debian ...

to fix 


$ perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8",
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_MONETARY = "en_US.utf8",
 LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.utf8",
 LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.utf8",
 LC_TIME = "en_US.utf8",
 LANG = "en_GB.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
^C




on 
$ cat /etc/debian_version; uname -a
7.5
Linux debie64 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3 x86_64 GNU/Linux


upon installing stuff that broke my|your bash env locale variables

do 

$ echo "export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc 
$ echo "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc 
$ echo "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc 
$ source ~/.bashrc 




$ perl
^C
taraaaaa

perl should not warn and fall back to C from now on.


perl ... debian package ... bash env ... locale .... crap ... tarrraaaa
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