locale errors during apt-get upgrades

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 06:33:03PM +0530, Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
> Hi, I've been using Ubuntu since 11.10. Why do I get the following messages
> whenever I update my packages? Why doesn't  Ubuntu itself set them by
> default?
> 
> 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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>             LANGUAGE = (unset),
>             LC_ALL = (unset)
>             LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
>       are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Ubuntu uses UTF-8 locales by default, and for some reason you've
specified the obsolete ISO 8859-1 here.

Try setting lang to en_IN.UTF-8 instead, wherever you've done so
(~/.bashrc?  ~/.profile?).

Marius Gedminas
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