[ic] perl on redhat 9

[Beau]

I have upgraded my Linux box and I am trying to setup perl on redhat9. The
perl on redhat 9 came with ithreads turned on which I read doesn't work so
I got the latest stable release from perl.org and followed instuctions
from some of the mailinglist archives.  I compiled it and everything
seemed fine then I ran 'make test' and './perl harness' and received the
following.  

Does anyone know what this means. this is where the error starts. It seems
like langauge setting stuff, but I don't know how to fix it.

../lib/locale..........................ok 98/117Malformed UTF-8 character
(unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, immediately after start byte 0xe7)
in pattern match (m//) at ../lib/locale.t line 526.
../lib/locale..........................ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/all..............Malformed UTF-8 character
(unexpected end of string) at ../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 115, <DATA>
line 109.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 117, <DATA> line 109.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 115, <DATA> line 178.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 117, <DATA> line 178.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 66.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 66.
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/all..............FAILED tests 9-10
        Failed 2/20 tests, 90.00% okay
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/constants........ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/country..........ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/currency.........ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/languages........Malformed UTF-8 character
(unexpected end of string) at ../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 115, <DATA>
line 109.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 117, <DATA> line 109.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 115, <DATA> line 178.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
../lib/Locale/Language.pm line 117, <DATA> line 178.
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/languages........FAILED test 22
        Failed 1/59 tests, 98.31% okay
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/rename...........ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/script...........ok
../lib/Locale/Codes/t/uk...............ok

I have poured though google results and it seems like others have had
similar trouble but I didn't see any solutions that I understood. 

The end results is:
Failed 2/712 test scripts, 99.72% okay. 3/67959 subtests failed, 100.00%
okay. Does it need to be 100%.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post.

Beau