Due to the pressures of university (labs, reports, and a dissertation), coupled with some of the other things I’ve been doing I haven’t posted here in ages. For now I’ll have to give you a post that is as much for you as it is for me.
Occasionally on my debian box I get an error such as:
$ perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
I always forget how to fix this, but the following should work:
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
If you get dpkg-reconfigure: locales is not installed, do an
apt-get install locales
and say yes when it asks you if you want to remove base-config. The functions of base-config have been superseded by locales.
You can also try using localeconf.