Crontab´s charset not in utf-8

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:19:02PM +0200, ml at bortal.de wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> i have the problem that executed crontab jobs die because they can not 
> hand the german chars such as ö,ä,ä.
> 
> When i run "locale" from a crontab job, i get:
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
...
> LC_ALL=
> 
> 
> if i run it from my root shell:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
...
> 
> Any idea how i can set the carset from the crontab to utf-8, too?

Add

  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

(or LC_ALL=..., depending on your needs) to your crontab file.

Marius Gedminas
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