Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: > There is validity in saying that 'LANG=utf-8' is an invalid setting
Agreed. But that doesn't really explain why e.g. LANG=en_US also produces "", while LANG=invalid produces "US-ASCII". > I do wonder how the user ended up with LANG=utf-8 in the first place. Me too. As far as I can gather, it's a result of setting the Terminal preferences (particularly the character encoding and 'Set LANG environment variable on startup' checkbox) in some particular way, on some versions of OS X, for users in some countries, at some particular phases of the moon, etc... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6393> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
