git svn throws locale related error when built from source

Hi

I built git 1.5.6.3 manually (no package with 1.5.4+ on gutsy), and I am getting the error below when running 'git svn rebase'. svn works fine on its own though. The default locale is set to en_US.UTF-8

svn: error: cannot set LC_ALL locale svn: error: environment variable LANG is en_US.UTF-8 svn: error: please check that your locale name is correct

I found a workaround that works, but it would be nice to have it work properly. $ LANG= git svn rebase

Here is the output of the locale command: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en-US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=

 
Thanks in advance.
-Anton