perl setting locale failing

Question

Is there any way of fixing once and for all the problem mentioned here: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Perl_warning_Setting_locale_failed_unter_Debian

I keep fixing it by doing

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

But whenever I reboot, the error starts happening again. It's a Ubuntu 11.04 VPS

Answer 1

Whenever you login via SSH, your locale (the one on the machine your are connecting from) is sent to the server. I assume, you have de_DE.UTF-8 set locally. Whenever you execute the code snippet from Hetzner while you are logged in on the machine you temporarily switch to a different LC and everything works (for a while).

First off look in /etc/default/locale. You should find a LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in there (if not, add it).

I would recommend to install your locale on the server. Try choosing any de_DE.* in the dpkg-reconfigure locales dialog..

Or you could append the export commands (not the other commands!) into your ~/.bashrc on the server, so they will be set automatically whenever you login.

Or you could disable accepting LC_* and LANG variables on you SSH server (and your server should fallback to it's default). Therefore remove them from - or uncomment the whole - AcceptEnv in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.