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  • 1.  tmux requires UTF-8

    Posted Fri September 15, 2023 05:13 AM

    I have tmux 3.1b-1 installed.

    When I run the tmux command I get error:

    tmux: need UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE) but have ISO8859-1

    Any ideas how I can fix this?



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    Glenn Robinson
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  • 2.  RE: tmux requires UTF-8

    Posted Fri September 15, 2023 07:52 AM

    Hi Glenn,

    Let me know what locale is currently set in your environment ?



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    SANGAMESH
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  • 3.  RE: tmux requires UTF-8

    Posted Sun September 17, 2023 03:48 AM

    $ locale
    LANG=en_GB
    LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
    LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
    LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
    LC_TIME="en_GB"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
    LC_ALL=

    $ locale -a
    C
    POSIX
    en_GB.8859-15
    en_GB.IBM-1252
    en_GB.ISO8859-1
    en_GB
    en_US.8859-15
    en_US.IBM-858
    en_US.ISO8859-1
    en_US



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    Glenn Robinson
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  • 4.  RE: tmux requires UTF-8

    Posted Mon July 08, 2024 05:00 PM

    Seeing this with latest open source as well in AIX 7.3
    # oslevel -s
    7300-02-02-2420
    # tmux
    tmux: need UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE) but have ISO8859-1
    # locale
    LANG=en_US
    LC_COLLATE="en_US"
    LC_CTYPE="en_US"
    LC_MONETARY="en_US"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
    LC_TIME="en_US"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
    LC_ALL=



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    Demian Phillips
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  • 5.  RE: tmux requires UTF-8

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue July 09, 2024 04:17 AM

    Install bos.loc.utf.* packages for your locale. E.g.:

    #lslpp -L bos.loc.utf.*
  Fileset                      Level  State  Type  Description (Uninstaller)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  bos.loc.utf.EN_US          7.3.2.0    C     F    Base System Locale UTF Code
                                                   Set - U. S. English

    Then you will get UTF-8 locale in the output of locale -a:

    #locale -a
C
POSIX
EN_US.UTF-8
EN_US
en_US.8859-15
en_US.IBM-858
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.UTF-8
en_US

    and it should work.



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    Andrey Klyachkin

    https://www.power-devops.com
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  • 6.  RE: tmux requires UTF-8

    Posted Tue July 09, 2024 09:27 AM

    Thanks. I missed finding the solution you posted because I searched on the exact error message I was given by the utility. 
    A more generic search without half of the error message provides this information as well.



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    Demian Phillips
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