;doc: cli: troubleshooting: clarify locale spelling a bit

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Simon Michael 2020-03-27 13:37:06 -07:00
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@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ also configure it temporarily. The locale may need to be one that
supports UTF-8, if you built hledger with GHC < 7.2 (or possibly always,
I'm not sure yet).
Here's an example of setting the locale temporarily, on ubuntu gnu/linux:
Here's an example of setting the locale temporarily, on Ubuntu GNU/Linux:
```shell
$ file my.journal
@ -1662,10 +1662,17 @@ POSIX
$ LANG=en_US.utf8 hledger -f my.journal print # <- use it for this command
```
Here's one way to set it permanently, there are probably better ways:
Exact spelling and capitalisation may be important. Note the difference on MacOS:
```shell
$ locale -a | grep -iE en_us.*utf
en_US.UTF-8
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 hledger -f my.journal print
```
Here's one way to set it permanently, if you use a bash shell:
```shell
$ echo "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >>~/.bash_profile
$ echo "export LANG=en_US.utf8" >>~/.bash_profile
$ bash --login
```