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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2015-07-17T15:34:21Z"
+ content="""
+This suggests that your system has misconfigured locales. Perhaps it has
+the locale set to en_US.UTF-8 but does not have that locale configured.
+
+Doesn't seem likely to be a bug in git-annex.
+
+The same message is reported in
+<http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/view_fails_with___34__invalid_character__34__/>.
+Arch linux was also being used there. Surely the Arch wiki has something
+about fixing your locale setting? :)
+"""]]