ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Mario Ruggier <mario at ruggier.org> writes:

> On OS X 10.5.2 :
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb  4 2008, 21:48:13)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> python2.5/locale.py", line 441, in getdefaultlocale
>     return _parse_localename(localename)
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> python2.5/locale.py", line 373, in _parse_localename
>     raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>>
>
> This is on open bug or is there more to it?
>
> Regards, mario

Works for me (10.5.3):

marigold:~ arno$ uname -srv
Darwin 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
marigold:~ arno$ python -c "import locale; print locale.getdefaultlocale()"
('en_GB', 'UTF8')

-- 
Arnaud