Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Fix locale issue in RedHat distro

Getting Error while logging into the RHEL system:

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

OR

Getting Errot while executing locale command :

$ locale
The output is...
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANGLANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
...



Solution for this issue:
Add the following line in "/etc/environment" file . 
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8


To see the result, logout and login to shell again

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