[H-GEN] Locale Setting and SVN In Debian

[Anthony Irwin]

Hi Guys,

I am running Debian Testing and am having trouble with the following
problem.

In a normal shell <ctrl> <alt> F1 if I type the command below I get the
following.

$ locale -a
C
en_AU
en_AU.iso88591
en_US
en_US.iso88591
POSIX

If I do the same in an xterm I get the following.

$ locale -a
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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_AU
en_AU.iso88591
en_US
en_US.iso88591

This is causing a problem because I want to run svn commands through an
xterm window but get the following.

$ svn
svn: error: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale
svn: error: environment variable LANG is en_AU.UTF-8

In a normal shell <ctrl> <alt> F1 if I type the command below I get the
following.

$ svn
Type `svn help` for usage.

Svn works fine in a normal shell but not in an xterm any suggestions on
how to get it to work correctly in a xterm would be appreciated. The
problem appears to be with the locale information but I don't know how
to fix it.

Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin