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"