Locale problems in chroot

[hardhu]

Hello everybody,
I have setup a dapper 32bit chroot environment (to run the newer version of tunderbird and firefox that are not yet available for amd64 breezy) using the tutorial in the wiki, but I have some problems with locale settings:
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(mychroot)root@eagle:/home/rick# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_IT:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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
Generating locales...
en_US.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date
Generation complete.
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Can anybody help me to solve this issue? TIA

[mattb1982]

try this:

sudo apt-get install localeconf

[chronobox]

Try this too:

sudo localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

[hardhu]

Originally Posted by chronobox Try this too: sudo localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

I have tried both solutions, but none seemed to work. I have then successfully removed the problem by re-creating the chroot environment and manually generating locales with 'sudo locale-gen en_US' and 'sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8'.
I still don't understand why there is this strange line:

LANGUAGE="en_IT:en"

in my /etc/environment outside the chroot, maybe because in the installation process I have set English as my language and Italy as my location, but this is giving me no problems.

[swamytk]

Interesting, I am facing this problem with fresh installation of Fedora Core 5 also. Thanks for solution, let me try at FC5.