Bash completion is not working when locale is missing on target

[markba]

Normally, bash completion using tab in the terminal works as expected. But when the target is a system (logged in to a remote server or something else), which has not the locale of the host system loaded, an error message is displayed:
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (nl_NL.UTF-8)

When trying to repair the locales on the remote system (logged in server):
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_MESSAGES = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
 LC_COLLATE = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
 LC_CTYPE = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
 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_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

What is odd, is that the locale of the remote seems to be set to nl_NL, but this is the locale of the host system. It looks like Ubuntu is mixing up the locales of the host and remote system.

Doing a locale repair on the host system, everything seems to be good, no error messages.

[markba (mark-baaijens)]

Tested. This works right now. Thanks.