In OS X Lion, LANG is not set to UTF-8, how to fix it?
Solution 1
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"
Solution 2
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
Solution 3
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
Solution 4
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"
Solution 5
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
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Updated on July 08, 2022Comments
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mamcx almost 2 years
I try to setup postgress in OS X Lion, and find that is not correctly setup the LOCALE environment var.
This is what is set:
LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL=
I expect something with UTF-8. This is a clean OS X Lion setup, with spanish language. I don't move anything.
I don't know how setup it to UTF-8.
In the terminal settings, is check UTF-8 and set LOCALE in open, despite that don't work.
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Chris Page over 12 yearsThat's odd. It should work in Terminal by default, assuming you're using the default shell (bash) and the default terminal settings profile (Basic). Note that if you alter the encoding or change "set locale environment variables" they only take effect in new terminals, not ones that are already open.
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mamcx over 12 yearsI use zsh (using oh my zsh! installer), maybe is that?
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Chris Page over 12 yearsPossibly. Try running zsh without any custom configuration to see if the problem goes away. Use Shell > New Command to run
zsh --no-rcs
andzsh --no-rcs --no-global-rcs
to narrow down the problem. Also, try just running thelocale
command without a shell via New Command and see what it reports. -
Chris about 8 years@ChrisPage I had the exact same output as the OP, with those settings enables in the Terminal. I had to switch
set locale environment variables
off, restart the terminal and then switch it back on to get the right environment to show up. -
starfry over 6 yearsThere is a thorough answer to this question on Ask Different.
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wormintrude over 12 yearsAlso, I originally noticed the issue while using iTerm2. This workaround seems to work for both iTerm2 and Terminal.
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Mariano Cavallo over 11 yearsSpent an hour looking a solution for this matter thanks a lot for posting this man. I can confirm it works on both Terminal and iTerm2.
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MindTooth over 11 yearsThank you :) I hope this is easiest and the most stable fix for this locale issue. Been bothered by this for some time now, but could not easily grasp why all my nix boxes would suffer from a malfunction locale issue.
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sunnycmf about 10 yearsthanks so much! after tons of searches, most of them direct me to the server i ssh to. this changes on Mac OSX really fix the problems.
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Даниил Пронин almost 10 yearsIs there a way to export global system language instead of hardcoded? I have
ru_RU
locale and maybe my project can clone some Latvian or Ukrainian user with other locale. I think that there is some variable in OS X that returns"ru_RU.UTF-8"
or similar for other locales. -
B Medeiros almost 9 yearsI have a
.bash_profile
on my home folder and.profile
was not being sourced when.bash_profile
was present. I needed to manually source.profile
inside.bash_profile
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Atcold over 7 yearsHere you can see how to choose this option for Mac's Terminal application.
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Redrick about 7 yearsAmazing, that did it, just a note, once you use zsh, don't be dumb as me... the config there is
~/.zshrc
... well now works like a charm -
Tim Babych about 7 yearsThis also files display of Unicode filenames in Midnight Commander
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Linh over 5 yearsIt really help. I don't have
bash_profile
and I have create it manually. And without putexport
tobash_profile
, every time we reset terminal the language will rollback. -
Denis V over 5 yearsHow is this answer different comparing to the accepted one?
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narengi about 5 yearsWhat is the purpose of the first pic? Isn't it the same as the last one?
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Robert Kusznier over 4 yearsThere is no reason to set both
LANG
andLC_ALL
. OnlyLANG
should be set. First, they both do the same - set default values for all locale variables (e.g.LC_TIME
,LANGUAGE
) - withLC_ALL
having precedence overLANG
.LANG
is the one meant to be used in standard configuration, whileLC_ALL
is only for debugging purposes (as it overwrites everything else). Some reference