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    Reconfigure your RPi Locales

First you need to install the locales you want:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Then refresh your current environment:
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
If you see these errors (on Jessie Lite) follow the next step
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Open your environment file
sudo nano /etc/environment

Add these lines
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to Save
That's it.