locale errors during apt-get upgrades

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:29:46PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Sabniveesu Shashank
>> <shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> $ cat /etc/default/locale
>>> LANG="en_IN"
>>> LANGUAGE="en_IN:en"
>>
>> Maybe setting "en_IN.UTF-8" for LANG in "/etc/default/locale" will fix
>> your problem without having to recompile locales; but I doubt it.
>
> Whereas I'm pretty sure that it would fix the problem.
>
> xx_XX locales default to the obsolete ISO-8859-1 charset; to get the
> modern UTF-8 you need to use xx_XX.UTF-8.

Perhaps. You must not have read my full message. I've encountered
these error messages before (even though I had "en_US.UTF-8") and had
to recompile my locale.

So simply using "en_IN.UTF-8" might solve the problem but the OP might
have to recompile "en_IN" (implicitely "en_IN.UTF-8").