In your migrations you can do something like:$table->json('field_name'); And in your model you add the field to the $casts property…
In CentOS try with system-config-language command. That’s the CentOS way 🙂 Also you can try with:
localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8