Setting the locale (Linux and macOS)

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin Core but not Harlequin MultiRIP

Before installing and using the clrip command-line application the locale may need to be configured. Open a terminal window and set the locale using:

Bash

export LANG=en_US
export LC_ALL=en_US

If en_US.UTF-8 is your system's default, you can use:

Bash

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

NOTE: To avoid having to set the locale each time you open a terminal window, you can make the following changes:

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local by adding:

Bash

echo "Setting locale"
/usr/bin/localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US

Alternatively, edit /etc/profile by adding the following two lines to the end of the file:

Bash

export LC_ALL=en_US
export LANG=en_US

or, if en_US.UTF-8 is your system's default, you can add:

Bash

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

If the locale is set incorrectly, clrip may report errors, or the process may not close after an output.

Similarly the import tool may report:

Error: Failed to build character decoding tables (check your locale settings).