starting gives crash with message "locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

[Kiri]

Binary package hint: glom

On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.4,
starting glom in any way gives the error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

even running
glom --version
gives this error.
Version is 1.13.2.

When the error is understood, the severity may be able to be set more
appropriately.

Upstream bug at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619445