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Locale

Sometimes you'll get an error relating to your locale.

You can fix your setup by adding a statement to your shell's init file. The following is supposed to set a bunch of similar settings at the same time for future terminal settings.

echo export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> ~/.bashrc

Why does it work? Starting at the end:

  1. >> ~/.bashrc appends a line to your shell's init file, and usually the default shell in terminals is bash which uses ~/.bashrc as its init file
  2. en_US.UTF-8 means that you want English/US settings and UTF-8 encoded output
  3. LANG is the environment variable that controls all of this, more on that below
  4. export means that it work in the current shell, and all other programs it calls (such as mastodon-archive)
  5. echo simply prints the line export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 such that >> ~/.bashrc will append it to the ~/.bashrc file

I promised some more information about your settings. Use the locale command to determine your current settings:

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

See how it changes when you set LANG:

$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="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=