[issue18378] locale.getdefaultlocale() fails on Mac OS X with default language set to English

Sat Jul 13 06:55:27 EDT 2019

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:

LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 is a valid configuration on macOS, and is in the default environment when you install a fresh system. This includes the beta's for macOS 10.15 and is therefore unlikely to change anytime soon.

Interestingly enough I get this error even when I unset the relevant environment variables. For some reason LC_CTYPE is reset when I start the interpreter, even if it is set to something else. This means the usual way of working around this problem no longer works.

I'll create a pull request with an up-to-date version of my latest patch for further discussion.

BTW. I'm testing with the current tip of the tree, but 3.7.3 fails in the same way.

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