[docutils:bugs] #495 locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

- **status**: open-fixed --> closed-fixed
- **Comment**:

The fix is now in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.
Thank you for reporting.




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**[bugs:#495] locale.Error: unsupported locale setting**

**Status:** closed-fixed
**Created:** Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:34 AM UTC by Artur Stępniak
**Last Updated:** Sat Jun 07, 2025 08:01 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


I'm getting "locale.Error: unsupported locale setting" when running e.g. rst2man docs/man/openvpn3-log.1.rst  | groff -Tutf8 -man

Full output:
~~~
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rst2man", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(rst2man())
             ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docutils/core.py", line 760, in rst2man
    rst2something('manpage', 'Unix manual (troff)', 'user/manpage.html')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docutils/core.py", line 739, in rst2something
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/locale.py", line 615, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
~~~

my locale setting:
~~~
locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=szl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="szl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="szl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="szl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
~~~


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