[New-bugs-announce] [issue10090] python -m locale fails on OSX

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net>:

$ python -m locale
Locale aliasing:

Locale defaults as determined by getdefaultlocale():
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Language:  en_US
Encoding:  UTF8
..

Locale settings after calling resetlocale():
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 ..

  File "Lib/locale.py", line 548, in resetlocale
    _setlocale(category, _build_localename(getdefaultlocale()))
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting


Apparently the problem is due to locale.getdefaultlocale() returning encoding as 'UTF8' while locale.setlocale() expects 'UTF-8'.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 118567
nosy: belopolsky
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: unit test needed
status: open
title: python -m locale fails on OSX
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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