The Fix:
http://patrick.arminio.info/blog/2012/02/fix-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf8/
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Timothy Makobu
<makobu.mwambir...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Update:
>
> When I downgraded to 1.3, everything worked ok. So I'll be using 1.3 for a
> while now to avoid surprises.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Timothy Makobu <
> makobu.mwambir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The database is PostgreSQL 9.1.3
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Timothy Makobu <
>> makobu.mwambir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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