[GRASS-dev] more on locale problem

[Agustín Diez Castillo]

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"

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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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>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
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