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How to resolve perl warnings about locale when SSH:ing from macOS into Debian/Ubuntu Linux
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perl locale warning
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
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solution
# Add this to your ~/.ssh/config on macOS
Host *
SetEnv LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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