Hyper: locale error on new shell

[msuntharesan]

• [x] I am on the latest Hyper.app version
• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: 4.8.13-1-ARCH
• Hyper.app version: 1.0.0
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: https://gist.github.com/vanthiyathevan/838ef268bd2d3bbdb0bbac17f2f28181
• Relevent information from devtools _(CMD+SHIFT+I on Mac OS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere)_: N/A
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: N/A

Issue

Hello,
Thank you for the awesome app. I've installed it using AUR package. But every time I open it I see this messages. This shows up on every new console.

manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

I have zsh as my default shell.

running locale on gnome terminal gives this

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

vs running locale on hyper

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Also when text is selected pressing ctrl un-select all selected.

[ppot]

@vanthiyathevan text is fix in #1218

[rkmax]

Today I have installed most recent version 1.3.3 and just opening the hyper app have the same issue on Archlinux and using zsh as my default shell, in my case

running locale on gnome terminal gives this

LANG=es_CO.utf8
LC_CTYPE=es_CO.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="es_CO.utf8"
LC_TIME="es_CO.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="es_CO.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="es_CO.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_CO.utf8"
LC_PAPER="es_CO.utf8"
LC_NAME="es_CO.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_CO.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_CO.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_CO.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_CO.utf8"
LC_ALL=

vs running locale on hyper

LANG=es_419.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=es_419.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_419.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

@vanthiyathevan in my case I did the following workaround

1. go to /usr/share/i18n/locales and symlink my locale to the locale that hyper detect

   $ cd /usr/share/i18n/locales
   $ sudo ln -s es_CO es_419
   

2. edit the /etc/locale.gen file and add the hyper detected locale

   $ sudo vi /etc/locale.gen
   
   
   es_CO.UTF-8 UTF-8
   es_419.UTF-8 UTF-8
   

3. last run locale-gen command

   $ sudo locale-gen

currently I'll start using hyper I hope this fix the problem for now, but would be nice not need this workaround :)

[gluons]

For me, I just set LANG in env option in my .hyper.js file to the locale of my terminal.

[hatsuo]

• OS version and name: Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Hyper.app version: 2.0.0
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: -- unmodified --
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Is Vanilla

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Why was this issue closed?

I tested both the latest stable and the canary versions and have the problem in both cases.

Bypassing this issue by manipulating your OS's locales or by editing hyper's environment variables might work but shouldn't this be fixed in a better, general way as multiple people are affected by this?

In my case the command locale resolves to LANG=de.UTF-8 in hyper but to LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 anywhere else.
/etc/default/locale also tells me that it should be de_DE.UTF-8.

[chabou]

Fixed by #2913 merged in canary branch and will be shipped with our next canary release

[hatsuo]

Thank you for the clarification.