I've just tried doing a dist-upgrade from a LiveCD, and this issue doesn't exist. Therefore, the problem must obviously have something to do with an old version of locales or some other weird configuration that was default in Dapper but doesn't work in Edgy.
-- Errors about locale when dist-upgrade from dapper to edgy. https://launchpad.net/bugs/67054 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
