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

The “warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory” error message in the OS X Terminal can occur when the system’s locale settings are not set correctly.

To fix this, you can try setting the locale to “UTF-8” using the following command in the Terminal:

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

This will set the locale to “UTF-8” for the current terminal session. If you want to make this change permanent, you can add the above two export statements to your shell startup file, such as .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .profile, depending on your shell.

If the problem persists, you may also try reinstalling the locale data by running the following command:

$ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

After running the above commands, log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.

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