I was worried that there might be 2 problems compounded here, but no longer 
think so. 

Yesterday, I compiled under Snow Leopard and today was able to test on Lion. It 
runs fine on my Lion machine AFTER manually editing .grassrc6 and adding 

LANG: en_US.UTF-8

The fact that this is needed is a problem in itself, but does provide a 
workaround but seemingly only to a US English machine. A computer with Spanish 
(or other?) localization will still bomb. This is ironic, of course, since the 
changes were designed to improve multi-lingual capabilities of GRASS. But this 
is what happens with such a complex system (a great, if annoying, example of 
CAS emergent effects). 

William Kyngesburye has a promising diagnosis that the issue lies with 
LC_CTYPE. Somehow, this is set incorrectly for your and Carlos' machine with a 
"UTF-8" designation instead of a "UTF8" designation. But I don't know how it 
got set badly or how to change it to test this hypothesis.

Hopefully others can suggest the beginnings of a solution to test.

Michael


On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Agustin Angel Diez Castillo wrote:

> Michael and others,
> Michael's 6.4.3 menus aren't working here, I did try adding 
> en_US.UTF-8
> to .grassrc6 but the complaints are the same
> ############################
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> ERROR: unknown locale: UTF-8
> 2012-07-26 11:56:43.011 Python[1916:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed 
> this invalid URL string: 
> '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path 
> instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL 
> functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or 
> CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
> ############################
> by the way my system preferences are set to english but the region is set to 
> Spain.
> cli is working
> As you know in R the language is forced with
> defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
> Is there something similar in GRASS?
> A
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 08:16 CEST, Michael Barton 
> <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
>> So I am now completely baffled as to why GRASS is not working on my 
>> colleague's computer. it is a pretty new MacBook (last 6 months) and he has 
>> not installed much on it--Office, Mendeley. It is running the most current 
>> version of Lion (10.7.4).
>> 
>> There are repeated problems with locale on it. Here is an example that works 
>> fine on my computer also running Lion.
>> 
>> import locale
>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> File 
>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py",
>>  line 496, in getdefaultlocale
>> File 
>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py",
>>  line 428, in _parse_localename
>> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
>> 
>> I don't know where it is getting UTF-8. The GUI code in GRASS calls the 
>> language en_ES.UTF-8, but this is running Python outside of GRASS. I've 
>> tried setting locale to es_EN, and to C. But we still get this error when 
>> locale.getdefaultlocale() is run in wx GUI.
>> 
>> Any ideas?????
>> 
>> Michael
>> _____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research &
>> University Consortium for Atmospheric Research
>> 303-497-2889 (voice)
>> 
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, 
>> http://csdc.asu.edu<http://csdc.asu.edu/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

_____________________
C. Michael Barton
Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research &
University Consortium for Atmospheric Research
303-497-2889 (voice)

Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu





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