In OS X Lion, LANG is not set to UTF-8, how to fix it?

Question

I try to setup postgress in OS X Lion, and find that is not correctly setup the LOCALE environment var.

This is what is set:

LANG=
LC_COLLATE=\"C\"
L         


        

Answer 1

if you have zsh installed you can also update ~/.zprofile with

if [[ -z "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
  export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
fi

and check the output using the locale cmd as show above

❯ locale                                                                                                                                           
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"