ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

[mr]

On Jun 1, 8:43 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
>
> > This is on open bug or is there more to it?
>
> Do you have an environment variable set who is named
> either LANG or starts with LC_?

Actually, yes:

LC_CTYPE=UTF-8

where is it coming from? This is basically on a clean new machine...
who might be setting it? It is coming from a program elsewhere on the
system? How should python code deal with this?

Thanks! mario