[maemo-developers] Python - problem with locales

[From: Lauro Moura]

On 10/6/07, David Hautbois <david.hautbois at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your tips, but I still have problem :
>
> ***** unset LC_ALL
>  >>> import locale
>  >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
> (None, None)
>
> Error:
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in
> position 54: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> ***** export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" (Like my debian workstation)
>  >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
> ('en_US', 'UTF8')
>
> Error:
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in
> position 54: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> ***** export LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
>  >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
> ('fr_FR', 'UTF8')
>
> Error:
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in
> position 54: ordinal not in range(128)
>

Hi David,

Could you paste the output of the following script to show LC_ALL,
LC_CTYPES, LANG and LANGUAGE?
http://pastebin.com/f16db283

My scratchbox shows LC_ALL=C and everything else undefined, leading to
that UnicodeEncodeError. If I reproduce these values in my Ubuntu
desktop, the same error occurs.

To work correctly, I had to unset LC_ALL (bigger precedence) and set
LANG to en_GB.

PS: This still differs from ubuntu, where I had to set LANG to
en_GB.UTF-8 (not just en_GB) and this config fails on scratchbox (I'm
working on it).

-- 
Lauro Moura