# Julia 0.7.0-alpha.0 ERROR: PCRE.exec error: UTF-8 error: isolated byte with 0x80 bit set

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**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-0-error-pcre-exec-error-utf-8-error-isolated-byte-with-0x80-bit-set/11456/6 "2018-06-06T23:47:20Z")

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Have you tried setting the `LC_TIME` locale field to `<whatever_your_language_is>.UTF-8`?

You could do that directly in your `~/.juliarc.jl` file.

See the discussion here: [Strftime & strptime bug #27239 is present on all platforms, not just Windows - #3 by ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strftime-strptime-bug-27239-is-present-on-all-platforms-not-just-windows/11191/3)

You could use this code to set the locale for Julia to whatever your language is, but using UTF-8:

```julia
julia> setlocale(lc) = unsafe_string(ccall((:setlocale,"libc"), Cstring,(Cint,Cstring),0,lc))
setlocale (generic function with 1 method)
julia> setlocale("ko_KR.UTF-8")
"ko_KR.UTF-8"

```

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