fix(terminal): inherit the host UTF-8 locale instead of forcing en_US.UTF-8 - #1713
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WalkthroughThe terminal process now preserves inherited UTF-8 locales. It falls back to ChangesLocale-aware terminal environment
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/localeEnv.spec.ts`:
- Around line 34-39: Add a locale environment test alongside the existing
precedence cases that calls getUtf8LocaleEnv with LANG set to en_AU.UTF-8 and
LC_CTYPE set to POSIX, asserting both returned values use the en_US.UTF-8
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1-42: LGTM!src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.ts (1)
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beforeEachsnapshotsprocess.env, and the enclosingafterEachrestores the snapshot after every test, including the locale changes.
| it("honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_ALL wins over LANG", () => { | ||
| expect(getUtf8LocaleEnv({ LANG: "en_AU.UTF-8", LC_ALL: "POSIX" })).toEqual({ | ||
| LANG: "en_US.UTF-8", | ||
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Addressed in 59534c7 (rebased onto main@08d05eb).
Valid catch. The resolution order in getEffectiveLocale() was already LC_ALL || LC_CTYPE || LANG, so the behaviour was right, but nothing pinned LC_CTYPE against LANG — the existing precedence case only covered LC_ALL vs LANG, so reordering the two would indeed have slipped through. Added the requested case:
it("honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_CTYPE wins over LANG", () => {
expect(getUtf8LocaleEnv({ LANG: "en_AU.UTF-8", LC_CTYPE: "POSIX" })).toEqual({
LANG: "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_ALL: "en_US.UTF-8",
})
})Mutation control, to show the new case guards the order rather than merely restating the outcome: with the lookup swapped to LC_ALL || LANG || LC_CTYPE, exactly this one test fails (Tests 1 failed | 8 passed (9), expected {} to deeply equal { LANG: 'en_US.UTF-8', … }) while the LC_ALL case still passes — i.e. precisely the gap you described. With the correct order the spec is Test Files 1 passed | Tests 9 passed (9).
The branch is still a single commit and the surrounding suites are unchanged (targeted specs 2 passed / 28 passed, eslint/prettier/tsc clean).
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| it("honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_ALL wins over LANG", () => { | ||
| expect(getUtf8LocaleEnv({ LANG: "en_AU.UTF-8", LC_ALL: "POSIX" })).toEqual({ | ||
| LANG: "en_US.UTF-8", | ||
| LC_ALL: "en_US.UTF-8", | ||
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Addressed in 59534c7 (rebased onto main@08d05eb).
Valid catch. The resolution order in getEffectiveLocale() was already LC_ALL || LC_CTYPE || LANG, so the behaviour was right, but nothing pinned LC_CTYPE against LANG — the existing precedence case only covered LC_ALL vs LANG, so reordering the two would indeed have slipped through. Added the requested case:
it("honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_CTYPE wins over LANG", () => {
expect(getUtf8LocaleEnv({ LANG: "en_AU.UTF-8", LC_CTYPE: "POSIX" })).toEqual({
LANG: "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_ALL: "en_US.UTF-8",
})
})Mutation control, to show the new case guards the order rather than merely restating the outcome: with the lookup swapped to LC_ALL || LANG || LC_CTYPE, exactly this one test fails (Tests 1 failed | 8 passed (9), expected {} to deeply equal { LANG: 'en_US.UTF-8', … }) while the LC_ALL case still passes — i.e. precisely the gap you described. With the correct order the spec is Test Files 1 passed | Tests 9 passed (9).
The branch is still a single commit and the surrounding suites are unchanged (targeted specs 2 passed / 28 passed, eslint/prettier/tsc clean).
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/localeEnv.spec.ts`:
- Around line 34-39: Extend the locale environment tests around getUtf8LocaleEnv
with a case containing both LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE, such as POSIX and de_DE.UTF-8,
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Add an LC_ALL versus LC_CTYPE precedence case.
The tests verify LC_ALL over LANG and LC_CTYPE over LANG, but they do not verify the first two precedence levels against each other. An implementation that checks LC_CTYPE before LC_ALL passes both tests. Add a case such as { LC_ALL: "POSIX", LC_CTYPE: "de_DE.UTF-8" } and expect the fallback override.
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/localeEnv.spec.ts` around lines 34 - 39,
Extend the locale environment tests around getUtf8LocaleEnv with a case
containing both LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE, such as POSIX and de_DE.UTF-8, and assert
that the fallback override reflects LC_ALL precedence. Keep the existing LANG
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Valid again, same class as the previous one - one precedence level up. The lookup
LC_ALL || LC_CTYPE || LANG already gets this right, but no test pinned LC_ALL
against LC_CTYPE, so an implementation that read LC_CTYPE first would indeed
have passed the whole suite.
it("honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_ALL wins over LC_CTYPE", () => {
// LC_ALL overrides the category variables, so a UTF-8 LC_CTYPE must not
// rescue an ASCII LC_ALL.
expect(getUtf8LocaleEnv({ LC_ALL: "POSIX", LC_CTYPE: "de_DE.UTF-8" })).toEqual({
LANG: "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_ALL: "en_US.UTF-8",
})
})Mutation control (hoisting LC_CTYPE above LC_ALL: env.LC_CTYPE || env.LC_ALL || env.LANG) fails exactly this case and nothing else:
FAIL integrations/terminal/__tests__/localeEnv.spec.ts > getUtf8LocaleEnv > honors the POSIX precedence order, where LC_ALL wins over LC_CTYPE
AssertionError: expected {} to deeply equal { LANG: 'en_US.UTF-8', …(1) }
Tests 1 failed | 9 passed (10)
Reverted afterwards; worktree clean.
With this case plus the LC_CTYPE vs LANG case from the previous round, all three pairwise relations of LC_ALL > LC_CTYPE > LANG are now pinned, so any reordering of the three operands fails at least one test - and each reordering fails exactly one, i.e. every case guards a distinct edge.
Implementation untouched, spec 10 passed, tsc --noEmit clean, eslint clean, prettier clean on the committed blobs.
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….UTF-8 Commands spawned by the execa terminal spread process.env and then hardcoded LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8, so a host that already resolved to a UTF-8 locale (for example en_AU.UTF-8) was overridden and every command printed "setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)". Resolve the effective locale the way POSIX does (LC_ALL, then LC_CTYPE, then LANG) and only fall back to en_US.UTF-8 when that locale is not UTF-8, which keeps the UTF-8 guarantee for Ruby/CocoaPods on hosts that do not configure a UTF-8 locale. Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#1084
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Nice - Thank you for addressing. ⭐
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Commands spawned by the execa terminal were always run with
LANG=en_US.UTF-8andLC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, overriding whatever locale the host already had. On a WSL2 host whose locale isen_AU.UTF-8, every command printedsetlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)(that locale is not generated), and locale-sensitive tools behaved as if the machine were US English.Root Cause
src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.tsbuilds the child environment like this:The spread is followed by two hardcoded assignments, so both variables are replaced unconditionally and the host locale is never inherited. The UTF-8 intent behind the override is legitimate (Ruby, CocoaPods and friends misbehave when no UTF-8 locale is configured) — the defect is that a host which already resolves to a UTF-8 locale is overridden anyway, with a locale that may not exist on that machine.
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src/integrations/terminal/localeEnv.tswithgetUtf8LocaleEnv(env). It resolves the effective locale the way POSIX does (LC_ALL, thenLC_CTYPE, thenLANG) and only returns theen_US.UTF-8fallback when that effective locale is not UTF-8. A UTF-8 locale provided by the host is inherited untouched.ExecaTerminalProcessnow spreads that helper into the child environment instead of hardcoding the two variables.apps/cli/scripts/**,packages/core/src/custom-tools/esbuild-runner.ts): none of them sets a locale, so they already inherit the host environment and this was the only affected path.ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts: theshould set LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8case now clears the locale variables first, so it no longer depends on the locale of the machine or CI runner executing the suite. A regression test for the reported case and a pure-logic spec for the helper were added.Before-After
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8(the issue)LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8(clobbered)LANG=en_AU.UTF-8,LC_ALLunset (inherited)LANG=en_US.UTF-8LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8/zh_CN.UTF-8LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8LANG=C/LC_ALL=POSIXLC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8Backward Compatibility
C,POSIXand an unset locale are kept as-is.CorPOSIX) is still upgraded toen_US.UTF-8. This is intentionally stricter than the literal suggestion in the issue ("only setLANG/LC_ALLif not already present"): the goal of the override was to guarantee UTF-8, so only hosts that are already UTF-8 are left alone.LC_CTYPEis honored as a locale signal, because POSIX resolves the locale fromLC_ALL, thenLC_CTYPE, thenLANG.Closes #1084