[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)

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#2552: GRASS 7.0 RC1 wxGUI: fails to launch in Spanish locale (UnicodeEncodeError)
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 Reporter:  santipardo  |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker     |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  wxGUI       |     Version:  svn-releasebranch70      
 Keywords:  locale      |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  x86-64      |  
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Comment(by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:2 annakrat]:
 > I encoded the string in r64335 to the encoding set during the startup. I
 am not sure if that solves the problem, needs testing.
 That change is bogus. The string should be a str (byte string), not
 unicode, so calling .encode() on it is meaningless. Reverted in r64364.

 The error appears to arise from r41856 passing unicode=True to
 gettext.install(), meaning that translated strings are returned as unicode
 values which then end up being converted to strings using the default
 encoding. Fixed in r64366.

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