title: LANG environment variable in zsh
body: <p>I recently installed sublime text on a new ubuntu machine.
  During start up I get the following error message :</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Your system's locale is set to a value that can not handle non-ASCII
    characters. Package Control can not properly work unless this is
    fixed.</p>
    
    <p>On Linux, please reference your distribution's docs for information on
    properly setting the LANG environmental variable. As a temporary
    work-around, you can launch Sublime Text from the terminal with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sublime_text
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I checked for the following in the terminal (zsh shell) <code>echo $LANG</code> but this does not return anything i added the following two lines to the <code>~/.profile</code> and restarted the terminal, but this did not help as <code>echo $LANG</code> did not return anything ?</p>
  
  <p>How can I set my <code>LANG</code> env variable in zsh shell ?</p>