From fbc9f4ae8e8f70a955359121e0852c83bd8b7b36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:39:49 -0600
Subject: fix(archsetup): add locale configuration

Configure en_US.UTF-8 locale early in Environment Configuration
section to prevent "cannot change locale" errors during package
installs.
---
 archsetup | 7 +++++++
 todo.org  | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/archsetup b/archsetup
index e598b9f..177afcc 100755
--- a/archsetup
+++ b/archsetup
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@ prerequisites() {
 
     display "subtitle" "Environment Configuration"
 
+    # configure locale (must happen before package installs that depend on locale)
+    action="configuring locale" && display "task" "$action"
+    sed -i 's/^#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
+    (locale-gen >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || error "error" "$action" "$?"
+    echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
+    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+
     # sync the time on this machine (one-shot chrony sync)
     action="synchronizing system time" && display "task" "$action"
     (chronyd -q 'server 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst' >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || error "error" "$action" "$?"
diff --git a/todo.org b/todo.org
index b8a9ee7..24fed8e 100644
--- a/todo.org
+++ b/todo.org
@@ -261,10 +261,16 @@ CLOSED: [2026-01-21 Wed]
 Package fails with yay - appears to be in extra repository, may need to change to AUR install or verify correct source
 RESOLVED: Now installed via pacman (line 867: pacman_install at)
 
-*** TODO [#B] Ensure locale is set properly
+*** DONE [#B] Ensure locale is set properly
+CLOSED: [2026-01-21 Wed]
 Errors during install: "setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory"
 Perl warnings about locale settings not supported/installed on system
 Need to properly configure locale generation and LC_* environment variables
+RESOLVED: Added locale configuration early in Environment Configuration section:
+- Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen
+- Run locale-gen
+- Set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.conf
+- Export LANG for current session
 
 *** DONE [#B] Add opus codec to archsetup
 CLOSED: [2026-01-21 Wed]
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