Failed to set locale

Hi, while running the latest master branch, I encountered the following error:

ERROR - Failed to set locale to en_US.ISO8859-1

A quick lookup with locale -a showed that my system has many locales, but none matching the required one. Although a bit weird, as the line, causing the error, namely:

pythonlocale.setlocale(pythonlocale.LC_ALL, lang)

is calling only pythonlocale.LC_ALL which eventually is turned into en_US.ISO8859-1 by Python's locale.py. So is it a Python-and-my-system-related bug or somewhat else, like a PyQT issue?

[PeterSurda]

Hi,

this is a known bug (it does not try UTF-8 but defaults to the default locale encoding), I just haven't opened a ticket yet. You can work around it in the meantime by using locale-gen to generate the locale that's missing.

@PeterSurda May I ask why we aren't trying to load UTF-8? I guess because of compatibility issues with specific chars? It would be far more universal if there UTF-8 (or maybe even UTF-16) would be used.

[PeterSurda]

I fixed a bug and that opened a new one. I'll fix this one too, don't worry.

I'm not worrying, I'm here to help 😄

[PeterSurda]

Please retry with the latest v0.6 branch and close if it's fixed. It will still complain but it will then try UTF-8 and that should succeed.

It works now. At least it didn't throw any errors regarding locale.