Shell script locale in Maverick

[zhaowu]

Upgrade to maverick today and notice many of the scripts including some standard ruby gems raise exceptions. After a few hours debugging, the root cause identified is the encoding. Now the default is not utf-8. output from `locale` is 

 

LANG=

LC_COLLATE="C"

LC_CTYPE="C"

LC_MESSAGES="C"

LC_MONETARY="C"

LC_NUMERIC="C"

LC_TIME="C"

LC_ALL=

 

 

[Andrew]

 

Upgrade to maverick today and notice many of the scripts including some standard ruby gems raise exceptions. After a few hours debugging, the root cause identified is the encoding. Now the default is not utf-8. output from `locale` is 

 

LANG=

LC_COLLATE="C"

LC_CTYPE="C"

LC_MESSAGES="C"

LC_MONETARY="C"

LC_NUMERIC="C"

LC_TIME="C"

LC_ALL=

 

 

Alfred doesn't import any profiles so this may be a constraint you'll have to work with in your scripts.

 

I'm going to move this to the workflow help section for now to see if anybody can shed some light on the situation and offer a workaround.

[zhaowu]

I can prefix `LANG=en_US.UTF-8` before command to solve this. However, if I launch an application like SourceTree from Alfred. Then common command like `hub` would fail to execute from SourceTree.

 

Is there any place to set default LANG globally?

[zhaowu]

found the solution: set it in /etc/launchd.conf

 

setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8

setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8