[mosh-users] [mosh-devel] locale settings on OS lion/snow leopard

[Keith Winstein]

Hello Ben,

Sorry you're bumping into this. We do have users successfully running
mosh (client and server) on OS X Snow Leopard and Lion.

I wasn't clear from your email whether you got your local terminal
successfully into a UTF-8 native locale. What happens when you run
"locale" on the local terminal? Generally this is configured in the
Terminal.app settings.

Do you have any luck running a command like:

$ mosh remotehost --server="LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 mosh-server"

This will explicitly set the locale-related environment variable on
the remote side before launching the mosh-server.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Keith

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ben Zhao <ravenben at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> hey Keith (and anyone else)...
>
> I'm trying to get mosh working on a mbp and a server running snow leopard server.
> Unfortunately, any attempts to mosh into my server (thor) produces a complaint about:
>
> "mosh requires a UTF-8 locale."
>
> This is not too surprising since mac osx defaults to "C" locale. So I changed the locale settings in a number of places, including safari (which is supposedly the general setting for default apps, or so I've heard), terminal, and .cshrc.  Now running locale in the server side terminal produces:
> thor Mon Apr 09(7:30pm)[~]:-> locale
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> This should be right.
> But still.. same error.
>
> Any suggestions? Have you guys tried running mosh on lion or snow leopard?
>
> Ben
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Ben Y. Zhao                 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben
> Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>
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