The LC_CTYPE category determines character handling rules governing the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data characters (that is, single-byte versus multibyte characters), the classification of characters (for example, alpha, digit, and so on), and the behavior of character classes.
I noticed the exact same issue when logging onto servers running Red Hat from an OSX Lion machine.
Try adding or editing the ~/.profile
file for it to correctly export your locale settings upon initiating a new session.
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
These two lines added to the file should suffice to set the locale [replace en_US
for your desired locale, and check beforehand that it is indeed installed on your system (locale -a
)].
After that, you can start a new session and check using locale
:
$ locale
The following should be the output:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
I recently had the same issue on OS X Sierra with bash shell, and thanks to answers above I only had to edit the file
~/.bash_profile
and append those lines
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
This is a headbreaker for a long time. I see now it's OSX.. i change it system-wide and it works perfect
When i add this the LANG in Centos6 and Fedora is also my preferred LANG. You can also "uncheck" export or set locale in terminal settings (OSX) /etc/profile
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
if you have zsh installed you can also update ~/.zprofile
with
if [[ -z "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
fi
and check the output using the locale
cmd as show above
❯ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
I had this issue with MacOS High Sierria.
You can set up locale as well as language to UTF-8 format using below command :
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Now in order to check whether locale environment is updated use below command :
Locale
if [[ -z "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
fi
then check for locale, output should be :
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
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