Windows-31J locale causes Py_Initialize error

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Issue

  • When locale is set as WINDOWS-31J, "Py_Initialize error" occurs as following:
    ~~~
    # localedef -f WINDOWS-31J -i ja_JP ja_JP.SJIS
    # export LANG=ja_JP.SJIS
    # locale
    LANG=ja_JP.SJIS
    LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.SJIS"
    ...
    # dnf list installed
    Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
    LookupError: unknown encoding: WINDOWS-31J
    # gdb
    Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
    LookupError: unknown encoding: WINDOWS-31J
    ~~~

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • glibc-locale-source (Windows-31J)

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