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This is the error. It comes up when I paste and enter the installation code (which I get from the Package Control website) and each time I open up Sublime Text.

Package Control

Your system's locale is set to a value that can not handle non-ASCII characters. Package Control can not properly work unless this is fixed.

On Linux, please reference your distribution's docs for information on properly setting the LANG environmental variable. As a temporary work-around, you can launch Sublime Text from the terminal with:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sublime_text

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 13.04 so it's probably not version-dependent.

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  • So what have you found when searching the Ubuntu docs for setting the LANG variable?
    – MattDMo
    Aug 21, 2014 at 19:30
  • echo $LANG gives en_US.UTF-8 so it looks like my LANG variable is already set to what Sublime Text requires.
    – user1837378
    Aug 21, 2014 at 20:49

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I found some language settings were missing on my install of 14.04 that make this an easy fix:

  1. Install the language settings for system settings

    $ sudo apt-get install language-selector-gnome

  2. Go into Language settings (should be visisble from system settings now) and set your language to English (US) and apply system wide

  3. Restart

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The environmental variables definied in .bashrc and/or .profile files are not seen by graphical applications like Sublime Text. To solve this problem, add a line in /etc/profile like this:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

If you prefer, you ca also use export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 or any other language (ES, FR,...).

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