hypermail language problem

Eileen Walsh · 02-15-2009, 01:52 AM

Hi,

I'm new to linux and command line programs. When I type hypermail on the command line I get the following message:

Code:

eileen@CDX:/usr/bin$ hypermail
WARNING: locale "en_US", not supported.
hypermail: Can not create directory "archive".

My computer is using US English, and I'm using Kubuntu 8.04.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

jdkaye · 02-15-2009, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eileen Walsh

Hi,

I'm new to linux and command line programs. When I type hypermail on the command line I get the following message:

Code:

eileen@CDX:/usr/bin$ hypermail
WARNING: locale "en_US", not supported.
hypermail: Can not create directory "archive".

My computer is using US English, and I'm using Kubuntu 8.04.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Hi Eileen,
Can you type

Code:

locale

on the command line and show the output here. For example mine looks like this:

Code:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_NAME="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.ISO-8859-15"
LC_ALL=

cheers,
jdk

Eileen Walsh · 02-15-2009, 05:31 AM

Hello jdk!

Code:

eileen@CDX:~$ locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Here it is. Looks like I'm tuned for Canada - which is where I am. But my system settings say US ..

Thanks

jdkaye · 02-15-2009, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eileen Walsh

Hello jdk!

Here it is. Looks like I'm tuned for Canada - which is where I am. But my system settings say US ..

Thanks

Another Canadian, eh? Me too. Anyway, if hypermail is a program that runs in a terminal then those are the settings that count. Where are you getting you "system settings" from?
cheers,
jdk

Eileen Walsh · 02-15-2009, 05:54 AM

KDE System Settings > General > Personal - Regional and Language

Thanks

jdkaye · 02-15-2009, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eileen Walsh

KDE System Settings > General > Personal - Regional and Language

Thanks

OK, this is what I suspected. So it seems that your KDE settings and your terminal settings are out of sync. Sadly, KDE doesn't have a Canadian English module so if hypermail requires that they be the same then you'll either have to change your terminal settings to US English or else change them both to British English.
You can temporarily change the language in the terminal with something like this (if I remember correctly)

Code:

export LANG='en_US'

and then see if that sorts out the hypermail issue. If that command doesn't work, try googling and you'll quickly find the correct syntax if I've got it wrong.
Cheers,
jdk

Eileen Walsh · 02-15-2009, 05:30 PM

I tweeked the conf file and although hypermail still generates the error message - it also processes the config file and creates the html archive pages.

Thank you jdk

jdkaye · 02-16-2009, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eileen Walsh

I tweeked the conf file and although hypermail still generates the error message - it also processes the config file and creates the html archive pages.

Thank you jdk

Hi Eileen,
But did you confirm that the change actually worked. Did typing "locale" on the terminal respond with the en_US locale?
cheers,
jdk

Eileen Walsh · 02-16-2009, 01:36 AM

Hi jdk,

Actually, after fiddling with the config file I just ran it without doing

Code:

export LANG='en_US'

.

In the config file, I changed the language to

Code:

en_CA

and I changed the output directory name to one that actually existed. I found the configuration file on the net and hadn't read it through properly. So when I first ran it, the program was trying to find the directory that was listed in the original version of the file - a directory that didn't exist on my machine.

The program gave me an error message about the language but didn't tell me that the output directory didn't exist. As you can see below, I still received an error message but hypermail processed the instructions and gave me the html'ed archive files that I wanted. In English too!

Code:

eileen@CDX:~$ hypermail -c /home/eileen/Desktop/gen.conf
Warning: the body option has been disabled. See the
INSTALL file for instructions on replacing it with a style sheet.
WARNING: locale "en_CA", not supported.

Now all I have to do is change the html templates and write a css file. I downloaded a set of templates and plan on reading them through ...

Thanks for giving me your time.

jdkaye · 02-16-2009, 01:59 AM

Thanks so much for letting us know you got the thing working. Glad to have been of some help.
Cheers,
jdk