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Needs LANG/LC_ALL environment variables #11

Closed elvis-epx closed 6 years ago

elvis-epx commented 6 years ago 
/Users/epx $ echo $LANG

/Users/epx $ echo $LC_ALL

/Users/epx $ chirpw
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/chirpw", line 60, in <module>
    lc, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/chirp/20180316/libexec/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 545, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/chirp/20180316/libexec/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 477, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

/Users/epx $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
/Users/epx $ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
/Users/epx $ chirpw

... (loads) ...

tdsmith commented 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for the report. I think your system is misconfigured; the absence of those environment variables does not cause locale.getdefaultlocale() to throw an exception on my system.