Re: Installation of Py3.0rc1 fails on Mac OS X with bad locale

2008-11-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Not sure if this would qualify as a patch, but a workaround that seems > to be working for me is to change the bash environment's default > locale setting -- to a value acceptable to py3. > > I did this by adding the following line to /etc/profile: > > export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" It's not a pa

Re: Installation of Py3.0rc1 fails on Mac OS X with bad locale

2008-11-08 Thread mr
On Nov 1, 4:40 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be best if a Mac user could propose a patch for that problem > before the release of Python 3.0. Not sure if this would qualify as a patch, but a workaround that seems to be working for me is to change the bash environmen

Re: Installation of Py3.0rc1 fails on Mac OS X with bad locale

2008-11-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> How should this issue be worked around or dealt with? Should users on > Mac OS X 10.5 change the default value of LC_CTYPE? To what? It would be best if a Mac user could propose a patch for that problem before the release of Python 3.0. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Installation of Py3.0rc1 fails on Mac OS X with bad locale

2008-11-01 Thread Mario Ruggier
Hi, i had the following problem when installing py3.0rc1 on a Mac OS X 10.5.5. On this system, the default locale values are: $ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL= but "UTF-8" is is not a value for LC_CTYPE that is