pfsense tmux locale problem

2.3.3-RELEASE tmux locale problem



$ /usr/local/bin/tmux



Error: tmux: need UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE) but have US-ASCII



Solution:

grab the UTF-8 locale files from a FreeBSD box of the same vintage, it works. For example, if you grab http://atxfiles.pfsense.org/jimp/fbsd-10.3-en_US.UTF-8.tgz and then decompress it in /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8 then tmux runs.

$ cd /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8

$ tar xvfj ~/fbsd-10.3-en_US.UTF-8.tgz
#single line command

$  tar xvfz fbsd-10.3-en_US.UTF-8.tgz -C /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/

Test if tmux works...