Currency formatting is not possible using the 'C' locale.

[RickG]

A brand new Cartridge installation gives me:

TemplateSyntaxError at /
Caught ValueError while rendering: Currency formatting is not possible
using the 'C' locale.

I use Apache and mod_wsgi and found out that be default Apache sets
your locale to 'C', which is what happens when it doesn't know what
language settings you want to use. I tried setting up my wsgi scripts
as in here:

http://blog.picante.co.nz/post/Django-Apache-WSGI-locale-and-Currency-formatting-is-not-possible-using-the-C-locale/

which didn't work, nor did putting the same line in my settings.py
file. It only worked when I put it directly into Cartridge's
shop_tags.py file, putting this:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')

right above the "value = locale.currency(value)" line.

So maybe the locale should be a variable chosen by the user when
creating a new Cartridge site, and editable from the admin view? Or
at least it should check some environment variable like LANG to find
the correct locale.

[Stephen McDonald]

You should be able to define the locale using the setting: SHOP_CURRENCY_LOCALE

In your case in your settings module it would be:

SHOP_CURRENCY_LOCALE = "en_US.UTF-8"

Could you revert your change and try that? I'd be keen to know if that resolves it.

Cheers,

Steve

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[RickG]

Yeah, that fixes it more cleanly, using an unaltered Cartridge
package. Thanks!

On Jan 30, 11:30 pm, Stephen McDonald <stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should be able to define the locale using the
> setting: SHOP_CURRENCY_LOCALE
>
> In your case in your settings module it would be:
>
> SHOP_CURRENCY_LOCALE = "en_US.UTF-8"
>
> Could you revert your change and try that? I'd be keen to know if that
> resolves it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:26 PM, RickG <rger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A brand new Cartridge installation gives me:
>
> > TemplateSyntaxError at /
> > Caught ValueError while rendering: Currency formatting is not possible
> > using the 'C' locale.
>
> > I use Apache and mod_wsgi and found out that be default Apache sets
> > your locale to 'C', which is what happens when it doesn't know what
> > language settings you want to use.  I tried setting up my wsgi scripts
> > as in here:
>

> >http://blog.picante.co.nz/post/Django-Apache-WSGI-locale-and-Currency...

[Stephen McDonald]

Great, thanks for checking - I'd say this is a documentation issue then.

Cheers,

Steve