How to fix a locale setting warning from Perl?

Question

When I run perl, I get the warning:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset         


        

Answer 1

For anyone connecting to DigitalOcean or some other Cloud hosting provider from the iTerm2.app on MacOS High Sierra and getting this error on some commands:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
  are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").

This fixed the problem for me:

I know this thread is old but maybe somebody will find this useful. I know how annoying this can be.