On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:25:30AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I show the LANG env var set to 'en-US.UTF-8'. When I execute 'locale' I get: > > LANG=en-US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="C" > # all intermediate keys: LC_X="C" > LC_ALL=C
Somewhere, you have placed LC_ALL=C in your environment. You'll need to track that down and get rid of it. Overriding specific variables like LC_TIME or LC_COLLATE is fine, but you should not be setting LC_ALL on a permanent basis. It's for short-term emergency overrides only. LC_ALL is overriding your LANG variable, giving you the results that you see, and don't want. For now, you could unset it, and that would fix the problem in this one terminal. But you'll need to figure out where it came from in order to fix it permanently. If you use bash as a login shell, one of the ways you can track down where a variable comes from in your interactive shell is: PS4='+ $BASH_SOURCE:$FUNCNAME:$LINENO:' bash -ilxc : 2>&1 | grep LC_ALL This only works if it's coming from a file that's sourced by the shell, not if it's coming from PAM, or from GNOME, or any other desktop environment. (And it assumes your dot file configuration is relatively sane; if for example you failed to source .bashrc from your .profile or .bash_profile, then you might need to repeat it with -ixc instead of -ilxc to pick up the lines from .bashrc as well. But if you did things correctly, this shouldn't be needed.)
