haml: Sass compile failing on Unicode character

System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE AMD64-GENERIC Ruby: rvm installed 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-freebsd8.1] haml/sass: gem version 3.0.18 (Classy Cassidy)

Using the Compass gem version 0.10.5 with the susy plugin, whenever I go to compile a susy-based compass project my compiled CSS shows a stack trace indicating the following:

Syntax error: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2"                                 
        on line 19 of /home/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/compass-0.10. /frameworks/compass/stylesheets/compass/css3/_font-face.scss

This file contains a mixin which generates a font-face rule using Paul Irish’s smiley hack for local font file overrides, as defined here: http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/#smiley

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Created 14 years ago
Comments: 16

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Set default encoding for compass See https://github.com/haml/haml/issues/269. Seems that OS X Mavericks causes this to occur, even when system default is set to utf-8. Force encoding in admin scss a... — committed to kinglozzer/sapphire by kinglozzer 11 years ago

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@geoidesic you have to modify your .bashrc or .profile (maybe .zshrc if you use ZSH).

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

+14

Grawl on Feb 22, 2015

For the record, it’s not @charset: "UTF-8" in CSS - it’s actually typed without quotation marks, @charset UTF-8;

m-hagberg on Aug 11, 2016

Serendipity. I’d just followed a rabbit-trail of various Ruby 1.9 posts to that same question myself a few minutes ago. My system is showing default external is US-ASCII and internal is nil. No idea why it’s US-ASCII, my system should be UTF-8.

In any case, I just set the LANG env variable to en_US.UTF-8 and it works fine.

dparis on Sep 22, 2010

I wish someone would say how they changed LANG=en_US.UTF-8 instead of just saying that they did it.

geoidesic on Feb 22, 2015