Merge tag 'debian/8.1' into stretch-bpo

dgit release 8.1 for unstable (sid) [dgit]
[dgit distro=debian]

# gpg: Signature made Wed 07 Nov 2018 07:11:36 PM MST
# gpg:                using RSA key 559AE46C2D6B6D3265E7CBA1E3E3392348B50D39
# gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lib b/tests/lib
index a050522..fa553af 100644
--- a/tests/lib
+++ b/tests/lib
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ export DGIT_TEST_DEBUG
 export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='1530000000 +0100'
 export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='1530000000 +0100'
 
+export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
+
 root=`pwd`
 troot=$root/tests
 testname="${DGIT_TEST_TESTNAME-${0##*/}}"