[S3tools-commits] [ s3tools-Bugs-2777729 ] "unsupported locale setting"

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Bugs item #2777729, was opened at 2009-04-21 18:33
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Category: s3cmd
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tim Martin (fishpi)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "unsupported locale setting"

Initial Comment:
I installed s3cmd on a relatively clean Ubuntu 8.10 server (slicehost image). As far as I can remember the install went cleanly and it worked straight away after that. However, when I logged out of the system and logged back in some days later, running 's3cmd ls' gave the following error:

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Problem: Error: unsupported locale setting
S3cmd:   0.9.9
Python:  2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:29:17)  [GCC 4.3.2]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 1562, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 1336, in main
    preferred_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or "UTF-8"
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 514, in getpreferredencoding
    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: unsupported locale setting
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I expect there's something wrong with my environment, which I'm happy to debug for myself (I'm suspicious that when I added a new user to the system I maybe didn't get all the environment set correctly?). However, this seems like a common enough use case and could use having a more descriptive error message or, if possible, an internal default that would let it get by with a warning rather than bombing out.

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