Failed to set locale #872

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2016-06-14T20:36:05+02:00

ghost commented

2016-06-14 20:36:05 +02:00

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Hi, while running the latest master branch, I encountered the following error:

ERROR - Failed to set locale to en_US.ISO8859-1

A quick lookup with locale -a showed that my system has many locales, but none matching the required one. Although a bit weird, as the line, causing the error, namely:

pythonlocale.setlocale(pythonlocale.LC_ALL, lang)

is calling only pythonlocale.LC_ALL which eventually is turned into en_US.ISO8859-1 by Python's locale.py. So is it a Python-and-my-system-related bug or somewhat else, like a PyQT issue?

Hi, while running the latest master branch, I encountered the following error: ``` ERROR - Failed to set locale to en_US.ISO8859-1 ``` A quick lookup with `locale -a` showed that my system has many locales, but none matching the required one. Although a bit weird, as the line, causing the error, namely: ``` python pythonlocale.setlocale(pythonlocale.LC_ALL, lang) ``` is calling only `pythonlocale.LC_ALL` which eventually is turned into `en_US.ISO8859-1` by Python's `locale.py`. So is it a Python-and-my-system-related bug or somewhat else, like a PyQT issue?

PeterSurda commented

2016-06-14 20:55:34 +02:00

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Hi,

this is a known bug (it does not try UTF-8 but defaults to the default locale encoding), I just haven't opened a ticket yet. You can work around it in the meantime by using locale-gen to generate the locale that's missing.

Hi, this is a known bug (it does not try UTF-8 but defaults to the default locale encoding), I just haven't opened a ticket yet. You can work around it in the meantime by using locale-gen to generate the locale that's missing.

ghost commented

2016-06-14 21:08:38 +02:00

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@PeterSurda May I ask why we aren't trying to load UTF-8? I guess because of compatibility issues with specific chars? It would be far more universal if there UTF-8 (or maybe even UTF-16) would be used.