Error on environment?

[Doctor Who]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 14:13, Doctor Who wrote:
>
>> I installed the findutils and coreutils packages so that I could use
>> locate on my Mac.
>
> FYI, locate works fine on my Mac without installing anything extra with
> MacPorts... I'm on Tiger, though I've probably enabled something somewhere
> along the way to get this to work.
>
>
>> When I attempt to update the database using
>> 'updatedb', I get:
>>
>> /usr/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
>> /usr/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
>> /usr/bin/sort: The strings compared were
>> `/APPLICATIONS/BURN.APP/CONTENTS/RESOURCES/JAPANESE.LPROJ/BURN
>> Ã\230Ã\253Ã\225Â\232/TY/TASK_STYLE.CSS' and
>> `/APPLICATIONS/BURN.APP/CONTENTS/RESOURCES/JAPANESE.LPROJ/CREDITS.HTML'.
>>
>> Hopefully someone can tell me how to fix this.
>
> Is your LANG environment variable set to anything? If so, what? I assume you
> need to set it to a reasonable value for your terminal. For example, I set
> LANG to "en_US.UTF-8".
>

Thanks, where should this setting be?