Cron job error

I get this message in my local mail:
Subject: fcron <systab@morgana> /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:02:47 +0200 (EET)
From: [email protected] (fcron)
Status: R
col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
it's an error in one of cron.daily scripts. the only cron jobs were installed by packages:
[root@morgana ~]# ls -l /etc/cron.daily/
total 20
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 08:52 logrotate
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 807 Jun 4 2011 man-db
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 115 Sep 10 03:42 pkgfile
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 96 Dec 4 03:13 shadow
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 654 Apr 9 2011 updatedb
I'm quite sure that man-db is having troubles. Also, I replaced default cron with fcron, same thing happens (I like fcron more anyway). Maybe it's locale related? I use en_US.UTF-8 in rc.conf and uk keymap. locale.gen only has the defaults, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 & en_US ISO-8859-1.
I have no idea what's wrong. Any ideas please? Thanks

It appears one of your scripts is corrupt. Try running it through iconv to see if there is a bad byte sequence.
$ iconv < /etc/cron.daily/man-db > /dev/null

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795980 wrote:
Hello,
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-? ) cat $0 | grep "#H" | grep -v "grep"
exit
esac
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-? ) cat $0 | grep "#H" | grep -v "grep"
exit
esac
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
ORACLE_SID=$1
else
return
fi
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
SCHEMA=$2
else
return
fi
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v_TABLE_NAME,
v_COL_NAME,
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exit;
EOF
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ExpansiveMind wrote:
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