Re: [Bug 1051760] [NEW] Ubuntu 12.04 root python got“unknownencoding:utf-8”

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 07:25 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:

>sudo python
>Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39) 
>[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> u'foo'.encode('utf-8')
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>LookupError: unknown encoding: utf-8

Works for me on 12.04 and 12.10.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 12.04 root python got “unknown encoding: utf-8”

Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  python
  Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39) 
  [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> u'foo'.encode('utf-8')
  'foo'
  >>> 

  sudo python
  Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39) 
  [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> u'foo'.encode('utf-8')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  LookupError: unknown encoding: utf-8
  >>>
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: python 2.7.3-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=zh:zh_CN:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
  Tags:  precise
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-29 (140 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner tape vboxusers video

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