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

Adding just one more option that worked for me on a RHEL6 system.

/etc/sysconfig/i18n contained LANG="en_US.UTF-8" but locale -a | grep -i en_us showed en_US.utf8.

After updating /etc/sysconfig/i18n to match the output of locale -a the problem was resolved.

Answer 2

On Debian Jessie:

I ran:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Added and installed the missing locale. Then it worked.

Answer 3

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).

Answer 4

This is caused by not having the proper locales generated on your system.

Uncommented lines that you want to support in /etc/locale.gen

For example:

en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8

and then run sudo locale-gen

Answer 5

For iTerm2:

Profiles → Open Profiles… → Edit Profiles… → Terminal → Unckeck Set locale variables automatically

Answer 6

We had this problem in our company as well, when using IntelliJ. A colleague of mine just fixed it.

For us the problem was the line SendEnv LANG LC_* in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. When I commented out that line, everything worked fine.