Comment 52 for bug 62748

FYI :
running the following :

ferrema@pupfish:/$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
ferrema@pupfish:/$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_AG.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NG.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
  it_CH.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
ferrema@pupfish:/$ eclipse
ferrema@pupfish:/$

fixes the issue .