In OS X Lion LANG is not set to UTF-8 how to fix it

Question

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

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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

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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

[macos] In OS X Lion, LANG is not set to UTF-8, how to fix it?

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