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

I had this issue with MacOS High Sierria.

You can set up locale as well as language to UTF-8 format using below command :

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Now in order to check whether locale environment is updated use below command :

Locale