It is now 2016 and this problem is still not fixed.
Everytime I have to test something and I spin up a Debian or Ubuntu server I ran into this problem.
Until I realized it and then fixed it I wasted so much time that all those proposed speed advantages of DO are gone anyway.
Currently it looks like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "de_CH.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
What are those crap entries doing in a fresh droplet?
a quick fix which btw does not fix it for me…