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Centos warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory
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LC_CTYPE.md
  1. vi /etc/environment

add these lines...

LANG=en_US.utf-8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

Alternatively,

  1. Create locale file manually: localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

Explained here

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MeryemTAIKOK commented Dec 17, 2023

  • add SendEnv to /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Please what do we mean exactly by SendEnv?

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Arwa200 commented Aug 5, 2025

hello
I have tried the tow options and did not work for me, can you advise.

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chiro-hiro commented Oct 7, 2025 •
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If you got LC_CTYPE error, try adding this.

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

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