locale errors during apt-get upgrades

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Sabniveesu Shashank
<shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sabniveesu Shashank
>> <shashank16392 at gmail.com> 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").
>>
>> What's the output of "locale" and "locale -a"?
>
> Pasted them at http://pastebin.com/pdKvRhgy

I forgot.

What's the output of "cat /etc/environment"?

If you have "LANG=en_IN" in that file, change it to "LANG=en_IN.UTF-8".

(Someone else asked you whether you're setting LANG or LC_* in one of
the bash startup files?)