[arch-general] interesting /etc/locale.conf situation

Kernel in use is 5.3.5 with I think all of the current systemd stuff installed last night. when I run cpanp I get warnings from perl stating setting locale failed and listing variables that are unset. However if I run source /etc/locale.conf then run cpanp, no warnings appear. What did I do wrong with this installation? grep -inv "^#" /etc/locale.gen shows only line 176 as being uncommented. localectl list-locales also shows that same value and no more than that value. --