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

Question

While trying to run a specific bash script, I get the following output:

manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Running node v4.8.5 (npm v2.15.11)
manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

The content of the script is the following:

 #!/bin/bash

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
cd /home/desktop/folder/subfolder && nvm exec 4.8.5 node app.js

If I write a small bash script, using echo or the like, the error doesn't occure. I haven't seen this error before. What is the cause? Other answers make it seem like an encoding error. I am using US.UTF-8.

user_14585986 · Answer

This worked for me today

echo "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Resource from https://gist.github.com/zeroc0d3/9d5333d542f7d1bc997d902ac17cd034

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

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