[New-bugs-announce] [issue5667] Interpreter fails to initialize when IO encoding is one of CJK on build dir

[Hyeshik Chang]

New submission from Hyeshik Chang <hyeshik at gmail.com>:

When a developer uses one of CJK encodings, interpreter crashes while
its initialization on build dir (not on installed base).

% LC_ALL=ko_KR.eucKR ./python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
LookupError: unknown encoding: euc_kr
zsh: abort (core dumped)  LC_ALL=ko_KR.eucKR ./python

The problem is that codec lookup function fails to import a relevant
codec module because path to dynamic modules is added by site.py, which
is a later step than standard I/O object initializations.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 85187
nosy: hyeshik.chang
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: Interpreter fails to initialize when IO encoding is one of CJK on build dir
type: crash
versions: Python 3.1

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