changing locale
 

HI all,
When I got my laptop, linux was already installed. It was all installed in French. My problem is that I was to change locale or just add to them. I need to have eng_us

When I run some commands i get:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "fr_BE",
LC_ADDRESS = "fr_BE",
LC_MONETARY = "fr_BE",
LC_SOURCED = "1",
LC_NUMERIC = "fr_BE",
LC_TELEPHONE = "fr_BE",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "fr_BE",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "fr_BE",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "fr_BE",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.

I checked for the locale installed and I have:
C
CP1251
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-10
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-9
KOI8-R
KOI8-U
POSIX
UTF-8
fr
fr_BE
fr_BE.ISO-8859-1
fr_BE.ISO-8859-15
fr_BE.UTF-8
fr_CA
fr_CA.ISO-8859-1
fr_CA.ISO-8859-15
fr_CA.UTF-8
fr_CH
fr_CH.ISO-8859-1
fr_CH.ISO-8859-15
fr_CH.UTF-8
fr_FR
fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.ISO-8859-15
fr_FR.UTF-8
fr_LU
fr_LU.ISO-8859-1
fr_LU.ISO-8859-15
fr_LU.UTF-8
français
french


Also, Whenever I open a console I get:
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


Just so you know, I have mandrake 10.1 installed kde3.2.
I dont know how to change locale or add to it. It should be possible. If so, would you let me know how.

Thanks,
Ghita

Anyone know how to fix the locale problem. Any hints ?
Your help would be appreciated

jus try this(prototype for setlocale sys call)

include<locale.h>
char setlocale(int category,const char* locale);

category will be whtever u wanted; say LC_ALL
locale is either C , POSIX ,en_US


hope i understood wht u wanted

bye

Sorry but where am I supposed to do this? Where is the setlocale supposed to be?
Just to make sure what you are telling me to do is what I need. In a simpler way, I need en_US , en_US.UTF8 to be included in locale. When I do locale -a, the encodings that show are all for French.
thanks again