Fwd: ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

[Timothy Makobu]

Hi Devs,

I got no reply on this issue when I posted it on django-users. I was eventually able to go around it by installing Django 1.3 (I was getting the error on 1.4) This error occurred on both PostreSQL and MySQL databases.

regards,

Tim

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From: Timothy Makobu <makobu.m...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Subject: ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
To: django...@googlegroups.com

Hi,

I'm getting an "unknown locale" exception and yet the LANG environment variable is set:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "manage.py", line 14, in <module>

    execute_manager(settings)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 459, in execute_manager

    utility.execute()

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute

    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv

    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

    output = self.handle(*args, **options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle

    return self.handle_noargs(**options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 90, in handle_noargs

    syncdb.Command().execute(**options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

    output = self.handle(*args, **options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle

    return self.handle_noargs(**options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 110, in handle_noargs

    emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 189, in emit_post_sync_signal

    interactive=interactive, db=db)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 172, in send

    response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 73, in create_superuser

    call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True, database=db)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 150, in call_command

    return klass.execute(*args, **defaults)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

    output = self.handle(*args, **options)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 70, in handle

    default_username = get_default_username()

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 105, in get_default_username

    default_username = get_system_username()

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 85, in get_system_username

    return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1])

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 503, in getdefaultlocale

    return _parse_localename(localename)

  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 435, in _parse_localename

    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

# echo $LANG

# en_US.UTF-8

[Adnane Belmadiaf]

Hi,

Look at this ticket https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5846

For more infos : http://patrick.arminio.info/blog/2012/02/fix-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf8/

2012/5/2 Timothy Makobu <makobu.m...@gmail.com>

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Adnane Belmadiaf

[Timothy Makobu]

Worked. Thanks.