LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

October 5, 2013

If you get this warning message from bash every time you start a shell

/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

You can resolve it easily by generation the locale with

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

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