[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-678259 ] locale.getpreferredencoding fails on AIX

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Bugs item #678259, was opened at 2003-01-31 13:01
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Category: Extension Modules
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
>Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: locale.getpreferredencoding fails on AIX

Initial Comment:

The problem is setting LC_CTYPE to an empty string:

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, '')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/home/neal/python/dist/aix/Lib/locale.py", line 
381, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: locale setting not supported

Putting a try/except around the setlocale call in 
getpreferredencoding allows the test to pass.  I don't 
know if this is correct.

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