Comment 5 for bug 215842

It appears the issue is that the build doesn't set LANG anywhere, so the system is defaulting to POSIX, which isn't a UTF8 locale. The easiest way to fix this is likely to ship an /etc/default/locale in ume-config-common that specifies some UTF8 locale (e.g. en_US.UTF8). I'll attach a patch later, unless someone is especially motivated beforehand.