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Mac OS X Mavericks & the git command line

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Note: This one may not affect you at all, if you own a MacBook with an English keyboard layout (and corresponding native language settings).

I however, bought a MacBook Pro with a German keyboard layout, and when using, for example ‘git pull’ on the command line I got this message:

$git pull
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I added this to my .bash_profile:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Problem gone — thanks to the folks at spindicator.com who solved this problem already.

Note, that you may want to put in other values, depending on your language preferences.

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