$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
root@chu:~/projects/honstreams/server# env | egrep '^(LANG|LC_)'
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en

$ type tree
tree is hashed (/usr/bin/tree)

$ tree -L 2
.
|-- build.coffee
|-- foo
|-- node_modules
|   |-- coffee-script
|   |-- eco
|   |-- express
|   |-- forever
|   |-- stitch
|   `-- stylus
|-- package.json
|-- public
|   |-- css
|   |-- index.html
|   `-- js
|-- src
|   |-- a.coffee
|   |-- b.coffee
|   `-- \303\246\303\270\303\245.js
`-- testserver.coffee

11 directories, 8 files

$ tree -L 2 > foo; file foo
foo: ASCII text

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