LANG environment variable in zsh

Question

I recently installed sublime text on a new ubuntu machine. During start up I get the following error message :

Your system's locale is set to a value that can not handle non-ASCII characters. Package Control can not properly work unless this is fixed.

On Linux, please reference your distribution's docs for information on properly setting the LANG environmental variable. As a temporary work-around, you can launch Sublime Text from the terminal with:

   LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sublime_text

I checked for the following in the terminal (zsh shell) echo $LANG but this does not return anything i added the following two lines to the ~/.profile and restarted the terminal, but this did not help as echo $LANG did not return anything ?

How can I set my LANG env variable in zsh shell ?

Answer 1

User

you can declare and export the LANG environment variable in your ~/.zshrc

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Logout and log-in again to activate.

System-wide

For a system wide configuration edit /etc/default/locale as follow:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"

Check

You can get information about your locale with:

locale