Found it myself.... solution may be useful to others having similar problems on OS X. Error actually occurs due to to locale settings. This problem seems to have cropped up a number of times on other forums, but not for turbogears... which is somewhat surprising.
Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US seems to make the fix. If this is an consistent problem with OS X install of turbogears I'd recommend this being noted in the 'Alternate Installation Process' documentation. jd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.

