setenv -> locale-coding-system cannot handle ASCII?!

[Sam Steingold]

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-02-24 on loiso.podval.org

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't encode
  `SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXgfCthd/agent.1191' with
  `locale-coding-system'") 
  signal(error ("Can't encode `SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXgfCthd/agent.1191' 
                 with `locale-coding-system'")) 
  error("Can't encode `%s=%s' with `locale-coding-system'"
        "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" "/tmp/ssh-XXgfCthd/agent.1191") 
  setenv("SSH_AUTH_SOCK" "/tmp/ssh-XXgfCthd/agent.1191")


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