From 041f465cbd0d180426cbd5ab544266b7c06fd120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 05:25:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Wrap getpreferredencoding()'s use of setlocale in a
 try/except to prevent us from raising an exception when the locale is
 invalid.

Issue #1443504
---
 Lib/locale.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 777bb03f4fb..f44effe6d27 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -553,7 +553,10 @@ else:
             according to the system configuration."""
             if do_setlocale:
                 oldloc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE)
-                setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
+                try:
+                    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
+                except:
+                    pass
                 result = nl_langinfo(CODESET)
                 setlocale(LC_CTYPE, oldloc)
                 return result