ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
Date posted : 07/06/2019
There are times when install some packages, you will end getting this error due to locale issue.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 | Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site- packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from pandas.core.api import * File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site- packages/pandas/core/api.py", line 10, in <module> from pandas.core.groupby import Grouper File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby.py", line 18, in <module> from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 39, in <module> from pandas.core.series import Series File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py", line 2944, in <module> import pandas.tools.plotting as _gfx # noqa File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/tools/plotting.py", line 27, in <module> import pandas.tseries.converter as conv File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site- packages/pandas/tseries/converter.py", line 7, in <module> import matplotlib.units as units File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1131, in <module> rcParams = rc_params() File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site- packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 975, in rc_params return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error) File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1100, in rc_params_from_file config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error) File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd: File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__ return self.gen.next() File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/site- packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1000, in _open_file_or_url encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 545, in getdefaultlocale return _parse_localename(localename) File "/Users/pheonix/webapp/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 477, in _parse_localename raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 |
Solution:
You need to add locale settings in environment file.
Open the file and append below lines.
$ vim /etc/environment
$ vim /etc/environment
$ vim /etc/environment
LANG=en_US.utf-8<br>
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
LANG=en_US.utf-8<br>
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
LANG=en_US.utf-8<br> LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
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