Hi Devs, I got no reply on this issue when I posted it on django-users. I was eventually able to go around it by installing Django 1.3 (I was getting the error on 1.4) This error occurred on both PostreSQL and MySQL databases.
regards, Tim ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Timothy Makobu <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM Subject: ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 To: [email protected] Hi, I'm getting an "unknown locale" exception and yet the LANG environment variable is set: Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 14, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 459, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle return self.handle_noargs(**options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 90, in handle_noargs syncdb.Command().execute(**options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle return self.handle_noargs(**options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 110, in handle_noargs emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 189, in emit_post_sync_signal interactive=interactive, db=db) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 172, in send response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 73, in create_superuser call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True, database=db) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 150, in call_command return klass.execute(*args, **defaults) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 70, in handle default_username = get_default_username() File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 105, in get_default_username default_username = get_system_username() File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 85, in get_system_username return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 503, in getdefaultlocale return _parse_localename(localename) File "/opt/local/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 435, in _parse_localename raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 # echo $LANG # en_US.UTF-8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
