Hello all!
I’m using urwid 2.1.0 in my Python project. If I try to install and launch my snap from Ubuntu 18.04 (desktop), it works fine. However, if I try to run it from Ubuntu Core 16, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/qabro/x1/bin/qabro", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('qabro==0.12.dev0', 'console_scripts', 'qabro')()
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2852, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2443, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2449, in resolve
module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qabro/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from qabro.ui import ReportScreen
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qabro/ui.py", line 2, in <module>
import urwid
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urwid/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
from urwid.widget import (FLOW, BOX, FIXED, LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, TOP, MIDDLE,
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urwid/widget.py", line 27, in <module>
from urwid.util import (MetaSuper, decompose_tagmarkup, calc_width,
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urwid/util.py", line 61, in <module>
detected_encoding = detect_encoding()
File "/snap/qabro/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urwid/util.py", line 58, in detect_encoding
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, initial)
File "/snap/qabro/x1/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 598, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
After looking around, I found this Github issue that seems heavily related.
I would like to know if there is any kind of workaround I could use in my snap to avoid this issue…
You can reproduce this issue easily in any UC16 container, by running this:
$ python3
Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:44:02)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
('en_US', 'UTF-8')
>>> initial = locale.getlocale()
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, initial)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/snap/qabro/102/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 598, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
Here is the output of locale in UC16:
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=C.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
I’m not sure why there are some en_US.UTF-8 when this encoding is not available in locale -a…