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

I got the issue when I connect to a remote ssh server (ssh is used by svnserve -> svn update command).

The reason is that the remote server does not have the language pack available which is set in $LANG on the local server.

You can check the installed language packs by 'locale -a'. The $LANG language must be configured on the remote server.

E.g.

Local server: LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Remote server: locale -a -> only de_DE.UTF-8 is available

Resolution: Just install missing language pack on remote server: dpkg-reconfigure locales;

btw: the selected default language does not matter.