"locale" system error

I'm using a system with Ubuntu 10.4 and I'm able to open Matlab 2013b. However, when I try to open or run a m-file, I get the following error:

Caught "std::exception" Exception message is:
locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

I tried to google the solution, and some people solve this problem by setting the LC_ALL setting of the locale package. However, this has been set and doesn't solve the problem. When I type locale in the terminal I see:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

And the available locales are (locale -a):

C
en_AG
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX

So that shouldn't be a problem. Does anyone have a guess how to solve it? The version of locale is 2.11.1. On a different machine we have Ubuntu 12.04 and locale version 2.15, and there we don't have this problem.

[Dominik]

I'm observing the same issue. Could not find a solution yet. any idea. thanks

[Dominik]

fixed it by settin /etc/defaults/locale to: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"

and in the bash: . /etc/default/locale

[Domanic]

This works for me!

Similarly, I found that simply adding

setenv LANG en_GB.utf-8

to my .cshrc file was also sufficient (after logging out and back in).

Answer 1

[Domanic]

I've seen this on Matlab 2014a, too. A workaround is to run the command

setenv('LC_ALL','C')

after Matlab starts. The underlying issue seems to be with Java. I'll post again if I work it out.