Comment 4 for bug 496746

Some additional info on my issue, probably this was my fault.

I got the above issue while working in a chrooted vanilla extracted turn key core debian lenny .iso image.
That means that I did not have an initial turnkey install/auto boot setup which might fix my encoding issues..

I've also just run the debian lenny Turn Key core in Try out / live cd mode.
On it, "locale" yields :
LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C
And have tried following this example : http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20091224/how-set-locale-japanese
essentially :
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 => gives no error
dpkg-reconfigure locales
=> enable en_US.UTF-8 in the list
=> set en_US.UTF-8 as the default locale
=> something gets run :
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...locale alias file `/usr/share/locale/locale.alias' not found: No such file or directory
 done
Generation complete.
#I land back in bash terminal

Thanks for your help.