So this is getting narrowed down. Another question is does this just pop up as a bug with effects on the GUI in Lion or does it happen in Snow Leopard too? So far my tests have not been extensive enough.
2 Spanish computers with Lion: bad 1 English computer with Lion: good 1 English computer with Snow Leopard: good On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> > Date: July 26, 2012 6:26:47 AM MST > To: Michael Barton <[email protected]>, Agustin Angel Diez Castillo > <[email protected]> > Cc: Martin Landa <[email protected]>, Glynn Clements > <[email protected]>, GRASS developers grass-developers > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] more on locale problem > Reply-To: William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> > > > As you mentioned Michael, there was discussion of this problem a few times in > the past. > > The problem setting is not LANG, though, it's LC_CTYPE. The system is > somehow setting that to "UTF-8", and Python checks LC_CTYPE (and LC_ALL next) > before it checks LANG, so setting LANG in GRASS won't help, as Agustin found. > > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:03 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 > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > First Pogril: Why is life like sticking your head in a bucket filled with > hyena offal? > Second Pogril: I don't know. Why IS life like sticking your head in a bucket > filled with hyena offal? > First Pogril: I don't know either. Wretched, isn't it? > > -HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy > >
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