A few hours aqgo I opened a new bug report related to the very same problem reported here. I did it by mistake because it was the first time I was using reportbug. Anyway, to be on the safe side, I am here to forward my bug report as a reply to this bug. Maurizio.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maurizio Crozzoli <mam...@tin.it> Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:43 AM Subject: Bug#750607: gnome-terminal does not start anymore since non UTF-8 locale is not supported To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.12.2-1 Severity: important Tags: l10n Dear Maintainer, I am having the VERY SAME problem described in Debian Bug report logs - #746415, "gnome-terminal: will not start with non-utf-8 locale" which is still waiting to be solved. In the mean time I am completely unable to use gnome-terminal application. I do not know how to support that bug and more than a month went by without any answer to that bug report (not necessarily a solution, just an answer) so I decided to open a new one. Thanks for your support!!! Maurizio. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.20.0-2 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-2 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.12.2-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1 ii libc6 2.18-7 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2 ii libdconf1 0.20.0-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3 ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.8.2-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.7 ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.8.2-1 ii gvfs 1.20.2-1 ii yelp 3.12.0-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ciao, Maurizio.