Index: bsd.ruby.mk
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--- bsd.ruby.mk	(revision 342088)
+++ bsd.ruby.mk	(working copy)
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
 
 RUBY_WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/ruby-${RUBY_DISTVERSION}
 
-GEM_ENV?=		LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
+GEM_ENV?=		LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
 
 RUBY_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-rubyhdrdir="${PREFIX}/include/ruby-1.9/" \
 			--with-rubylibprefix="${PREFIX}/lib/ruby" \