Installation of Py3.0rc1 fails on Mac OS X with bad locale

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Nov 8 07:26:14 EST 2008


> Not sure if this would qualify as a patch, but a workaround that seems
> to be working for me is to change the bash environment's default
> locale setting -- to a value acceptable to py3.
> 
> I did this by adding the following line to /etc/profile:
> 
> export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

It's not a patch - as you say, it's a workaround. It's not clear to me
whether this has potentially negative side effects, such as other
programs now breaking.

Regards,
Martin



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