Tableau Server Initialize-Tsm Fails With Locale Error

Issue

After "yum install" of Tableau Server, the next step "initialize-tsm" fails with locale error:

$ sudo /opt/tableau/tableau_server/packages/script<version>/initialize-tsm --accepteula -a user1 -f

Locale 'en_IN' is not using UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 is required.
Example UTF-8 locales are en_US.UTF-8 or ja_JP.UTF-8 etc. Run 'locale -a' to see
a list of supported locales on your system.
Canceling.

Environment

Tableau Server
CentOS 7

Resolution

Check the system locale of the Linux to ensure it falls into the 11 supported locales, refer to Additional Information.

To check system locale, run the commands below:

$ cat /etc/locale.conf
$ localectl

To set the locale correctly, run the commands below:

$ sudo yum update systemd (optional, run only if the systemd is in old version that causes the following command not updating)
$ sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

In some cases, setting the above still may not resolve the issue. In that case, it may be the shell of the Linux prompt uses a specified locale. Run the commands below to set the environment variable for the shell:

$ localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

After this, re-run the initialize-tsm command