How to fix ipa error: "System encoding must be UTF-8 and iso8859-1 is not supported" while executing ipa host-show command

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Issue

  • getting 'iso8859-1' is not supported while executing ipa host-show
sh-4.4# kinit admin
Password for admin@EXAMPLE.COM:
sh-4.4#
sh-4.4#
sh-4.4# hostname
test1.example.com
sh-4.4# ipa host-show test1.example.com
ipa: ERROR: System encoding must be UTF-8, 'iso8859-1' is not supported. Set LC_ALL="C.UTF-8", or LC_ALL="" and LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • ipa

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