[maemo-developers] Python - problem with locales

[From: David Hautbois]

David Hautbois wrote:
> Lauro Moura wrote:
>   
>> 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_US.UTF-8.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>   
>>     
> The ouput of your script :
>
> [sbox-SDK_X86: ~] > ./tmp.py
> LC_ALL: C
> LC_CTYPES not defined
> LANG not defined
> LANGUAGE not defined
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./tmp.py", line 18, in <module>
> main()
> File "./tmp.py", line 15, in main
> print u"\u2014"
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in 
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> On my debian workstation :
> david at saturne:/scratchbox/users/david/home/david$ ./tmp.py
> LC_ALL not defined
> LC_CTYPES not defined
> LANG: en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE not defined
> —
>
> So in Scratchbox, I set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 :
> [sbox-SDK_X86: ~] > ./tmp.py
> LC_ALL not defined
> LC_CTYPES not defined
> LANG: en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE not defined
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./tmp.py", line 18, in <module>
> main()
> File "./tmp.py", line 15, in main
> print u"\u2014"
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in 
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I tried too :
> LANG=en_GB
> and
> LANGUAGE=en_GB
> and
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Nothing works....
>
> Thanks.
>
> David.
>
>   
I have another problem with Scratchbox
see : http://david.hautbois.free.fr/temp/pb-sdk.png
It should be a related problem...

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