utf8-locale.md

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Setting Up a UTF-8 Locale

You may need a UTF-8 locale to run some Ruby applications. For example we have found that Ruby Spec needs such a locale.

RedHat-based: Fedora, Oracle Linux, etc

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Debian-based: Ubuntu, etc

sudo apt-get install -y locales
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8