debian/ubuntu locales and language settings

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Published on 2010-04-15T08:07:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 8:13 UTC
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This self-answered question solves the following issues:

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

and some other locale related problems.

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