Locale error during install/update/ssh

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Hi everyone,

If you face one of these errors, see the below solution:

  1. On doing SSH:

    -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory

  2. On checking locale:

    [root@example ~]# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
...

  3. During bench update:

     Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "./env/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
     sys.exit(main())
 File "/home/frappe/frappe-bench/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 215, in main
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
 File "/home/frappe/frappe-bench/env/lib64/python2.7/locale.py", line 547, in setlocale
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
 locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
 Please install these dependencies using the command:
 sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel

Solution:

sudo vim /etc/locale.conf

# and add this
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
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