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If "LANGUAGE" is not set, the library checks the variable "LANG".  It has the
same syntax as "LANGUAGE" but does not allow the preferences chain with the
colon syntax.  After "LANG" the variable "LC_MESSAGES" (think "locale category
messages") is tried, and finally "LC_ALL".

Note for Microsoft Windows users: The locale preferences you have configured
for your system cannot yet be evaluated by libintl-perl.  This may change for
future versions of libintl-perl but for the moment you have to make do with
the instructions given above.  In order to set environment variables, you have
to right-click on the icon "My Computer" on your desktop, select "Properties"
in the context menu, and then click the tab labelled "Environment variables".

Setting the Output Charset
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Even if you have managed to properly select your preferred language, you may
still have difficulties reading the program languages, because libintl-perl
was unable to determine the correct charset to use for messages.  For example,
it may assume Unicode ("UTF-8") but you really need ISO-Latin-1 (also known as
"Latin-1" or "ISO-8859-1").  If this is the case, please set the environment