SVN cannot set LC_CTYPE locale

Question

I started getting the following error whenever i use SVN in my server:

svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale
svn: warning: environment variable LC_CTYPE is UT         


        

Answer 1

Check the output of

locale -a

If the locale that SVN is complaining about isn't installed, then you can install it.

You might need to do:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base

followed by one of (depending on the exact error from SVN, yours is the first case):

sudo locale-gen UTF-8
sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Alternatively as Ankit writes in his answer:

export LC_ALL=C

may work (in your current session, or in your .profile).