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Make it a bit harder to run into the LC_ALL thing
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This behavior is stupid. Respecting LC_ALL, or anything else for that
matter, over the encoding fucking noted in the fucking file is a bad
decision, and someone should feel bad. I don't know why it makes things
break in the specific and bizarre way it does, but it does, and there's
no possible good reason for it.

Closes #984. Fuck.
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embolalia committed Jan 17, 2016
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Restart=on-failure
RestartPreventExitStatus=2
RestartSec=30
Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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# coding=utf-8
# ASCII ONLY IN THIS FILE THOUGH!!!!!!!
# Python does some stupid bullshit of respecting LC_ALL over the encoding on the
# file, so in order to undo Python's ridiculous fucking idiocy, we have to have
# our own check.

# Copyright 2008, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com
# Copyright 2012, Elsie Powell, http://embolalia.com
# Copyright © 2012, Elad Alfassa <[email protected]>
# Copyright 2012, Elad Alfassa <[email protected]>
#
# Licensed under the Eiffel Forum License 2.

from __future__ import unicode_literals, absolute_import, print_function, division
import os
import sys
if hasattr(os, "getenv") and os.getenv("LC_ALL") == "C":

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elad661 Jan 17, 2016

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It might be safer to use locale.getlocale() and then check if the second part of the tuple is UTF-8, since python3 will run into issues when the locale encoding is not UTF8. There are a bunch of non-unicode locales that a Linux system (for example) can use, and you can type locale -a | grep \. | grep -v utf8 in your console to list all of the ones known to your version of libc.

By default, even on a normal environment, LC_ALL is unset, and then the value of LANG is is used. If both LC_ALL and LANG is unset, then the value of one of the other LC_(something) env vars is used (you can see them all by typing locale in your console).

If all of them are unset (for example if you type unset LANG, which resets all the others) the locale will change to "POSIX" (which is, I think, equivalent to "C") and that will cause problems.
print('WARNING!!! LC_ALL is set to "C", which makes Python do stupid '
'things. If you get strange errors, please unset it, or set it to '
'something like "en_US.UTF-8".', file=sys.stderr)


from collections import namedtuple
import os
import re
import time
import traceback
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