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* Ensure the proper locales are present, and being regenerated on package updates. <tt>locale -a</tt> will list all available locales. You want en_US. | * Ensure the proper locales are present, and being regenerated on package updates. <tt>locale -a</tt> will list all available locales. You want <tt>en_US.UTF-8</tt> or the appropriate regional equivalent (use <tt>C.UTF-8</tt> for an agnostic UTF-8 encoding): <tt>locale -a | grep UTF-8$</tt> should generate output. On [[Debian]], run <tt>dpkg-reconfigure locales</tt> to select generated locales and rebuild the locale database (it uses [[libc|libc's]] <tt>localedef</tt>). | ||
* Ensure that you're exposing a UTF-8-enabled locale to setlocale(3) and friends: <tt>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</tt> should be exported in your environment (the various LC_* variables can override LANG for certain subsets of context, while LC_ALL overrides other LC_* values). On [[Debian]], configure /etc/default/locale via <tt>dpkg-reconfigure locales</tt> (which subsequently drives <tt>update-locale</tt> from the same package). This file is sourced by pam configs and /etc/init.d files. | * Ensure that you're exposing a UTF-8-enabled locale to setlocale(3) and friends: <tt>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</tt> should be exported in your environment (the various LC_* variables can override LANG for certain subsets of context, while LC_ALL overrides other LC_* values). On [[Debian]], configure /etc/default/locale via <tt>dpkg-reconfigure locales</tt> (which subsequently drives <tt>update-locale</tt> from the same package). This file is sourced by pam configs and /etc/init.d files. | ||
