Had the same issue and it was indeed a locale issue for me as well. To fix this and other errors I changed my /etc/default/locale file to:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Then run:
sudo locale-gen
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Had the same issue and it was indeed a locale issue for me as well. To fix this and other errors I changed my /etc/default/locale file to: en_US.UTF- 8
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Then run:
sudo locale-gen
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales