You’ve built an awesome Jekyll site, and now you’re setting up a FreeBSD server that will also automatically compile and publish your site when you push up to your repo’s master
branch. You’re all:
And then, out of nowhere, you get:
Liquid Exception: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII in index.html
Your mood changes.
You hit the Google, looking for some answers. Some links seem promising, but nothing really concrete. No obvious answer in spot #1.
The answer lies with your shell’s LANG
setting. The FreeBSD way to set this is in /etc/login.conf
. On a stock install, you’ll have something like this:
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
*snip, snip...*
:priority=0:\
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=022:
Simply set lang
to your appropriate UTF-8 setting (probably en_US.UTF-8
):
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
*snip, snip...*
:priority=0:\
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=022:\
:lang=en_US.UTF-8:
Any changes to /etc/login.conf
need to reloaded by running (with root privileges):
cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
Log into your FreeBSD environment again, and give it another whirl.