sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ locale
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
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ nano /etc/       
Display all 140 possibilities? (y or n)
sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ nano /etc/e
email-addresses  exim4/           
sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ nano /etc/e
email-addresses  exim4/           
sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        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
Package `locales' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is not installed
sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$ sudo apt-get install locales
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  locales
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4004kB of archives.
After unpacking 10.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://221.133.213.9 etch/main locales 2.3.6.ds1-13 [4004kB]
Fetched 4004kB in 0s (8638kB/s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 37, in ?
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        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
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package locales.
(Reading database ... 25136 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.3.6.ds1-13_all.deb) ...
Setting up locales (2.3.6.ds1-13) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        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

sjw@morton:/srv/linux.org.au/newsite/files$