The research I've done has lead me to the conclusion that this problem has something to do with a bad locale configuration.
Currently locale gives me this output:
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locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Before I messed around with the locale settings I used to not get those three lines of error messages. I suspect the problem has something to do with the LANGUAGE environment variable not having the "UTF-8" suffix.
I tried following the instructions in the Debian wiki for setting the locale to "en_US.UTF-8" both with dpkg-reconfigure locales and manually by editing /etc/locale.gen and then running locale-gen and logging in and out but it didn't fix the problem.
I hope this post is not coming across too idiotic and someone can help me with this. Thanks.