[GRASS-dev] more on locale problem

Thu Jul 26 16:10:01 PDT 2012

I get nothing for either LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL (haven't had a chance to check with Carlos yet). But he's getting an error in python that UTF-8 is unrecognized. 

Looking at my machine, it comes up en_US.UTF8 (no hyphen).

On my computer...

anthgradpc7:~ cmbarton$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('en_US', 'UTF8')

[same answer in Python 2.7 on Lion]

On Carlos' computer

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 496, in getdefaultlocale
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 428, in _parse_localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

The GRASS wx GUI calls locale.getdefaultlocale() in ghelp.py

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On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Agustín Diez Castillo wrote:

> On machines that respond to locale in the terminal with
> to LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> I got into no trouble, including Mountain Lion
> But when locale answer
> to LC_CTYPE="C"
> 
> ________________________________
> Agustin
> 
> On 26/07/2012, at 22:13, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> So this is getting narrowed down. Another question is does this just pop up as a bug with effects on the GUI in Lion or does it happen in Snow Leopard too? So far my tests have not been extensive enough.
>> 
>> 2 Spanish computers with Lion: bad
>> 1 English computer with Lion: good
>> 1 English computer with Snow Leopard: good
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> From: William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>>> Date: July 26, 2012 6:26:47 AM MST
>>> To: Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>, Agustin Angel Diez Castillo <agustin.diez at uv.es>
>>> Cc: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>, GRASS developers grass-developers <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] more on locale problem
>>> Reply-To: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As you mentioned Michael, there was discussion of this problem a few times in the past.
>>> 
>>> The problem setting is not LANG, though, it's LC_CTYPE.  The system is somehow setting that to "UTF-8", and Python checks LC_CTYPE (and LC_ALL next) before it checks LANG, so setting LANG in GRASS won't help, as Agustin found.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Agustin Angel Diez Castillo wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Michael and others,
>>>> Michael's 6.4.3 menus aren't working here, I did try adding 
>>>> en_US.UTF-8
>>>> to .grassrc6 but the complaints are the same
>>>> ############################
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>> 2012-07-26 11:56:43.011 Python[1916:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed this invalid URL string: '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
>>>> ############################
>>>> by the way my system preferences are set to english but the region is set to Spain.
>>>> cli is working
>>>> As you know in R the language is forced with
>>>> defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
>>>> Is there something similar in GRASS?
>>>> A
>>>> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 08:16 CEST, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>> So I am now completely baffled as to why GRASS is not working on my colleague's computer. it is a pretty new MacBook (last 6 months) and he has not installed much on it--Office, Mendeley. It is running the most current version of Lion (10.7.4).
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are repeated problems with locale on it. Here is an example that works fine on my computer also running Lion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> import locale
>>>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>> File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 496, in getdefaultlocale
>>>>> File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 428, in _parse_localename
>>>>> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know where it is getting UTF-8. The GUI code in GRASS calls the language en_ES.UTF-8, but this is running Python outside of GRASS. I've tried setting locale to es_EN, and to C. But we still get this error when locale.getdefaultlocale() is run in wx GUI.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any ideas?????
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michael
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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