How to set "C.utf8" locale in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • Unable to set "C.utf8" locale in RHEL
  • How to set "C.utf8" locale in RHEL 6 and higher releases?

  • Get the error below error on the playbook run against RHEL 7 Managed Node.

    "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh: line 19: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (C.UTF-8)\r\n"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 6
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9
  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • glibc-common
  • Ansible Automation Platform 2.x

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