From d1b1dd70f4043d49cbf44ea75793d95aa0964b6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dgtlmoon <dgtlmoon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:13:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure a default Locale is set for more reliable text
 decoding (en_US.UTF-8 by default) (#3340)

---
 Dockerfile         | 3 +++
 docker-compose.yml | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8a2c985ef..fe7def444 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ COPY changedetection.py /app/changedetection.py
 ARG LOGGER_LEVEL=''
 ENV LOGGER_LEVEL="$LOGGER_LEVEL"
 
+# Default
+ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+
 WORKDIR /app
 CMD ["python", "./changedetection.py", "-d", "/datastore"]
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index f89e5f971..898fb1dc9 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ services:
   #        A valid timezone name to run as (for scheduling watch checking) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
   #      - TZ=America/Los_Angeles
   #
+  #        Text processing locale, en_US.UTF-8 used by default unless defined as something else here, UTF-8 should cover 99.99% of cases.
+  #      - LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+  #
   #        Maximum height of screenshots, default is 16000 px, screenshots will be clipped to this if exceeded.
   #        RAM usage will be higher if you increase this.
   #      - SCREENSHOT_MAX_HEIGHT=16000