Error on environment?

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 08:50, Doctor Who wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2009, at 14:13, Doctor Who wrote:
>>>
>>>> I installed the findutils and coreutils packages so that I could use
>>>> locate on my Mac.
>>>
>>> FYI, locate works fine on my Mac without installing anything extra with
>>> MacPorts... I'm on Tiger, though I've probably enabled something
>>> somewhere
>>> along the way to get this to work.
>>>
>>>
>>>> When I attempt to update the database using
>>>> 'updatedb', I get:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
>>>> /usr/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
>>>> /usr/bin/sort: The strings compared were
>>>> `/APPLICATIONS/BURN.APP/CONTENTS/RESOURCES/JAPANESE.LPROJ/BURN
>>>> Ã\230Ã\253Ã\225Â\232/TY/TASK_STYLE.CSS' and
>>>> `/APPLICATIONS/BURN.APP/CONTENTS/RESOURCES/JAPANESE.LPROJ/CREDITS.HTML'.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully someone can tell me how to fix this.
>>>
>>> Is your LANG environment variable set to anything? If so, what? I
>>> assume you
>>> need to set it to a reasonable value for your terminal. For example,
>>> I set
>>> LANG to "en_US.UTF-8".
>>
>> Thanks, where should this setting be?
> 
> Type "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8". Then try updatedb again. If it works,
> you'll know that was it, and it would be a good idea to modify your
> shell startup file to include that line to set LANG for you. Your shell
> startup file might be ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or possibly others;
> I'm sure the Bash documentation has a complete list of all the files it
> checks at launch time.

There are a couple of relevant settings in Terminal.app's preferences
which may be preferable to setting LANG manually.

- Josh