Brain/Drain/Pain

The EC2 AMI sometimes have the wrong character set. This could be very annoying in for example the German regio where characters like ä und ö are displayed incorrectly. Issue the following commands to switch your Ubuntu/Debian server to the correct character set:

Make sure these variables are set:

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

And don’t forget to reconfigure the character set.

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales