[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2015-07-02T18:18:22Z"
 content="""
It seems like you have some kind of system misconfiguration,
resulting in setlocale(3) failing. Probably `LC_ALL` is set to a locale
that is not available or is somehow broken.

I tested by setting metadata to a completely bogus unicode value, and it
all works ok here:

	joey@darkstar:~/tmp/annex>git annex metadata -s person=$(perl -le "print chr(0x99999999)")  you
	Wide character in print at -e line 1.
	metadata you 
	  lastchanged=2015-07-02@18-23-34
	  person=�������
	  person-lastchanged=2015-07-02@18-23-34
	ok
	(recording state in git...)
	joey@darkstar:~/tmp/annex>git annex metadata you
	metadata you 
	  lastchanged=2015-07-02@18-23-34
	  person=�������
	  person-lastchanged=2015-07-02@18-23-34
	ok
	joey@darkstar:~/tmp/annex>git annex view person='*'
	view  (searching...)
	
	Switched to branch 'views/person=_'
	ok
	joey@darkstar:~/tmp/annex#person=_>ls
	Gödel/  \376\202\231\246\231\246\231/
"""]]