Bug#511448: apt_listchanges.py throws 'locale utf_8_euro not found'

[Jörg Wölke]

Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.83
Severity: normal

Hello!

If you use locales like "de_DE.UTF-8@euro", the script
/usr/share/apt-listchanges/apt_listchanges.py
throws an exception ("LookupError: unknown encoding: utf_8_euro"),
because of the (incorrect) use of "locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]" in
lines 93 and 165 in apt_listchanges.py. Python can't know all the
possible locales on all possible systems. So the recommended way
is locale.getpreferredencoding(), which uses the systems API.

After changing that in lines 93 and 165 in
/usr/share/apt-listchanges/apt_listchanges.py the error disappears.

See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/493997.html

HTH and Greetings, J"o!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (991, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-grml (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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