From 6d77e07196bfb5dfa4de6f5d80b2619c0643a75e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronald Oussoren Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:59:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix for issue 6393: Python crashes on OSX when $LANG is set to some (but not all) invalid values due to an invalid result from nl_langinfo --- Lib/locale.py | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py index 4ab3c6a48c3..b7aaa52f041 100644 --- a/Lib/locale.py +++ b/Lib/locale.py @@ -570,10 +570,22 @@ else: except Error: pass result = nl_langinfo(CODESET) + if not result and sys.platform == 'darwin': + # nl_langinfo can return an empty string + # when the setting has an invalid value. + # Default to UTF-8 in that case because + # UTF-8 is the default charset on OSX and + # returning nothing will crash the + # interpreter. + result = 'UTF-8' + setlocale(LC_CTYPE, oldloc) return result else: - return nl_langinfo(CODESET) + result = nl_langinfo(CODESET) + if not result and sys.platform == 'darwin': + # See above for explanation + result = 'UTF-8' ### Database