mercurial/util.py
changeset 4057 3600b84656d3
parent 4055 e37786b29bed
child 4059 431f3c1d3a37
child 4067 c620376b8fd6
--- a/mercurial/util.py	Tue Jan 30 18:32:21 2007 -0200
+++ b/mercurial/util.py	Tue Jan 30 18:32:23 2007 -0200
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@
 demandload(globals(), "cStringIO errno getpass popen2 re shutil sys tempfile")
 demandload(globals(), "os threading time calendar ConfigParser locale glob")
 
-_encoding = os.environ.get("HGENCODING") or locale.getpreferredencoding() \
-            or "ascii"
+try:
+    _encoding = os.environ.get("HGENCODING") or locale.getpreferredencoding() \
+                or "ascii"
+except locale.Error:
+    _encoding = 'ascii'
 _encodingmode = os.environ.get("HGENCODINGMODE", "strict")
 _fallbackencoding = 'ISO-8859-1'