'ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8' problem in Mac OS X 10.5 Leoparad

[Oscar Sanchez Casamitjana]

On 10/28/07, Oscar Sanchez Casamitjana <osc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I can't install
> Mercurial via Macports (which uses Python 2.4.4) or via straight
> source (with Python 2.5.1 that comes with the OS). this is what I get:
>
> oscar$ sudo make install
> python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 16, in <module>
>     import mercurial.version
>   File "/Users/oscar/Desktop/mercurial-0.9.5/mercurial/version.py",
> line 16, in <module>
>     import util
>   File "/Users/oscar/Desktop/mercurial-0.9.5/mercurial/util.py", line
> 32, in <module>
>     _encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py",
> line 460, in getlocale
>     return _parse_localename(localename)
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py",
> line 373, in _parse_localename
>     raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
> make: *** [build] Error 1
>
> I couldn't even do 'make' before, but Googleing arround found this:
>
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue600
>
> and setting ' HGENCODING="UTF-8" solved the problem for that step. but
> now that 'make install' requires 'sudoing' it doesn't seem to work.

[update] a friend of mine told me to do:

$ export HGENCODING="UTF-8"
$ sudo echo $HGENCODING
UTF-8

so the ENV is now right, but the build still fails:

$ sudo make install
[snipped code]
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
make: *** [build] Error 1

so now I'm really lost.


regards,
oscar.