fix(terminal): stop forcing en_US.UTF-8 in execa command environment - #1481
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ExecaTerminalProcess unconditionally overwrote LANG/LC_ALL with
en_US.UTF-8 for every command it ran, even when the host already had a
correctly configured non-US UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_AU.UTF-8). This
produced setlocale warnings on every command for anyone whose system
locale isn't en_US.
ensureUtf8Locale() now preserves an existing locale if it already
specifies a UTF-8 encoding, upgrades the encoding portion of a non-UTF-8
locale while keeping its language/territory, and only falls back to
en_US.UTF-8 when LANG/LC_ALL is unset or one of the encoding-less POSIX
defaults ("C"/"POSIX").
Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#1084
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts`:
- Around line 65-68: Add focused tests in the ExecaTerminalProcess test suite
for ensureUtf8Locale when LANG and LC_ALL are set to C and when they are set to
POSIX, asserting both are normalized to en_US.UTF-8. Preserve the existing
unset-variable coverage and isolate each fallback case with appropriate
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- Line 110: Replace the undocumented double assertions around the execaMock
calls with Execa’s options type or a typed test helper for accessing env. If a
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.ts`:
- Line 73: Update the environment construction in ExecaTerminalProcess so
ensureUtf8Locale is applied to LC_ALL only when process.env.LC_ALL is set;
otherwise leave LC_ALL unset and preserve LANG or category-specific locale
variables. Update the related ExecaTerminalProcess test coverage to verify this
behavior.
- Around line 24-25: Update ensureUtf8Locale to parse any locale modifier
separately, normalize the base locale to .UTF-8, and append the modifier
afterward so both de_DE@euro and de_DE.UTF-8@euro become valid
modifier-preserving forms. Add focused tests covering both inputs and their
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| it("should default LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 when unset", async () => { | ||
| delete process.env.LANG | ||
| delete process.env.LC_ALL | ||
| terminalProcess = new ExecaTerminalProcess(mockTerminal) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add coverage for the C and POSIX fallback branches.
This test covers only unset variables. ensureUtf8Locale has separate branches for C and POSIX, so add focused cases that set each value and assert en_US.UTF-8. As per path instructions, regression tests must cover boundary and default paths.
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts` around
lines 65 - 68, Add focused tests in the ExecaTerminalProcess test suite for
ensureUtf8Locale when LANG and LC_ALL are set to C and when they are set to
POSIX, asserting both are normalized to en_US.UTF-8. Preserve the existing
unset-variable coverage and isolate each fallback case with appropriate
environment cleanup.
Source: Path instructions
| terminalProcess = new ExecaTerminalProcess(mockTerminal) | ||
| await terminalProcess.run("echo test") | ||
| const execaMock = vitest.mocked(execa) | ||
| const calledOptions = execaMock.mock.calls[0][0] as unknown as { env: Record<string, string | undefined> } |
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Replace the undocumented double assertions at lines 110 and 121. Use Execa’s options type or a typed test helper to access env; if a cast is necessary, document it nearby.
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts` at line
110, Replace the undocumented double assertions around the execaMock calls with
Execa’s options type or a typed test helper for accessing env. If a cast remains
necessary, add a nearby explanation documenting why it is required, while
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| const [base] = value.split(".") | ||
| return `${base}.UTF-8` |
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POSIX locale name syntax codeset modifier de_DE.UTF-8@euro setlocale
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In POSIX-compliant systems, locale names generally follow a standardized syntax used by the setlocale function and environment variables to define regional settings [1][2]. The typical structure is: language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier] Components of this syntax: - language: An ISO 639 language code (e.g., de for German) [1][3]. - territory: An ISO 3166 country code (e.g., DE for Germany) [1][3]. - codeset: The character set or encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO-8859-15) [1][2]. - @modifier: An optional suffix used to indicate a variant or adjustment to the default locale behavior [2][4]. Regarding the specific locale name de_DE.UTF-8@euro: - This denotes a German locale for Germany using the UTF-8 character encoding [4]. - The @euro modifier was introduced in the early 2000s to specify that the locale should use the Euro currency symbol and associated monetary formatting [3][5][4]. It was created to differentiate newer Euro-compliant currency settings from pre-Euro local configurations [3][6][7]. The setlocale function uses these strings to configure various locale categories, such as LC_MONETARY (currency), LC_COLLATE (sorting), and LC_CTYPE (character classification) [6][8][9]. While the base language and territory are often standard, the @modifier component allows for finer granularity in these definitions, such as choosing between different collation sequences or currency rules within the same language and region [5][6].
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- 1: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/setlocale.3.html
- 2: https://snapshots.sourceware.org/glibc/trunk/2026-07-24_13-50_1784901001/manual/html_node/Locale-Names.html
- 3: https://www.linux.com/news/controlling-your-locale-environment-variables/
- 4: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/globalization/blob/main/globalization/locale/other-locale-names.md
- 5: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/720268/what-is-modifier-in-locale-name
- 6: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/SC22/WG20/docs/n573-Euro_Handling.pdf
- 7: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-5585/6jej9prif/index.html
- 8: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799.2024edition/functions/setlocale.html
- 9: https://man.archlinux.org/man/setlocale.3.en
Preserve locale modifiers during normalization.
ensureUtf8Locale("de_DE@euro") returns the invalid form de_DE@euro.UTF-8, while ensureUtf8Locale("de_DE.UTF-8@euro") drops @euro. ExecaTerminalProcess passes these results as LANG or LC_ALL, which can change or invalidate the requested locale. Parse the modifier separately and append it after .UTF-8. Add focused tests for both forms.
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.ts` around lines 24 - 25,
Update ensureUtf8Locale to parse any locale modifier separately, normalize the
base locale to .UTF-8, and append the modifier afterward so both de_DE@euro and
de_DE.UTF-8@euro become valid modifier-preserving forms. Add focused tests
covering both inputs and their expected normalized results.
| // clobbering a locale the system already has correctly | ||
| // configured (see https://github.com/Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code/issues/1084). | ||
| LANG: ensureUtf8Locale(process.env.LANG), | ||
| LC_ALL: ensureUtf8Locale(process.env.LC_ALL), |
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Do not set LC_ALL when it is unset.
When LANG is configured and LC_ALL is unset, this line writes LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8. LC_ALL overrides LANG and category-specific LC_* variables, so the command still uses the fallback locale instead of the configured locale. This recreates the reported override and can recreate setlocale warnings. Only normalize LC_ALL when it is present, or use equivalent logic that does not override the effective locale. Update Line 123 of src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts.
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In `@src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.ts` at line 73, Update the
environment construction in ExecaTerminalProcess so ensureUtf8Locale is applied
to LC_ALL only when process.env.LC_ALL is set; otherwise leave LC_ALL unset and
preserve LANG or category-specific locale variables. Update the related
ExecaTerminalProcess test coverage to verify this behavior.
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Closes: #1084
Description
ExecaTerminalProcessunconditionally overwroteLANG/LC_ALLwithen_US.UTF-8for every command it runs, even when the host already had a correctly configured non-US UTF-8 locale (e.g.en_AU.UTF-8). This produced asetlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directorywarning on every single command for anyone whose system locale isn'ten_US.UTF-8and doesn't have that specific locale generated (confirmed root cause in the issue via the bundleddist/extension.js).src/integrations/terminal/ExecaTerminalProcess.ts: addedensureUtf8Locale(value), which:LANG/LC_ALLvalue as-is if it already specifies a UTF-8 encoding (e.g.en_AU.UTF-8staysen_AU.UTF-8).de_DE.ISO-8859-1becomesde_DE.UTF-8).en_US.UTF-8only when the value is unset, or is one of the encoding-less POSIX defaults (C/POSIX) — matching the original intent of the code (the comment says "Ensure UTF-8 encoding for Ruby, CocoaPods, etc.") without clobbering a locale the system already had correctly configured.src/integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts: updated the existing "should set LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8" test to explicitly unsetLANG/LC_ALLfirst (previously it implicitly relied on the old code ignoring the ambient environment entirely, which made the assertion depend on whatever locale happened to be set on the machine running the test — it silently passed in CI only because CI runners don't set a non-US UTF-8 locale). Added two new cases covering the actual bug: preserving an already-UTF-8 non-US locale, and upgrading a non-UTF-8 encoding while keeping the language/territory.Test Procedure
npx vitest run integrations/terminal/__tests__/ExecaTerminalProcess.spec.ts— 15/15 passed, including the 2 new cases reproducing the reported bug (en_AU.UTF-8preserved) and the encoding-upgrade case (de_DE.ISO-8859-1→de_DE.UTF-8).npx vitest run integrations/terminal— 189 passed / 23 skipped, no regressions in the wider terminal integration suite.tsc --noEmit— clean.eslint . --ext=ts --max-warnings=0(viapnpm lint, all 13 packages) — clean, no new@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-anysuppressions added (used aunknowndouble-cast for the two new test assertions instead ofany, matching the file's existing suppression budget ineslint-suppressions.json).LANG=en_AU.UTF-8/LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8set, the spawned command environment now keepsen_AU.UTF-8instead of being forced toen_US.UTF-8.Pre-Submission Checklist
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I found this issue unassigned and unclaimed while looking for a well-scoped bug to fix. I wasn't able to complete the Discord assignment step described in CONTRIBUTING.md before opening this — happy to withdraw or wait if a maintainer would rather this go through that process first, but the fix itself is small, fully tested, and root-caused directly from the issue's own diagnosis.
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