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I’ve read numerous posts about people having problems with the default locale on a clean Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu. This manifests in getting errors like:
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
There is a quick fix, which is just running
locale-gen en_US
But. Can’t this be fixed in the default Ubuntu image? Apparently en_US is installed as the default locale, but the locale files aren’t generated. Am I thinking too simple? Are there any reasons why this can’t be included in the default image?
Thanks!
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export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Then run
sudo update-locale
Now run
locale
you shouldn’t see any errors.
For a permanent solution,
Add the above export commands inside ~/.profile
I just had the same problem on a fresh droplet. The solution worked, however it’s a bit weird that the linux images are not preconfigured correctly with working locale settings.
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