LookupError: unknown encoding: A

[engineliu]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /timeline, Trac issued an internal error.

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User Agent was: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10

System Information

Trac	0.11.6
Python	2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
setuptools	0.6c11
SQLite	3.5.9
pysqlite	2.4.1
Genshi	0.5.1
Subversion	1.6.6 (r40053)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.6-py2.6-win32.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 450, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.6-py2.6-win32.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 206, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.6-py2.6-win32.egg\trac\timeline\web_ui.py", line 123, in process_request
    'today': format_date(today),
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.6-py2.6-win32.egg\trac\util\datefmt.py", line 140, in format_date
    return format_datetime(t, format, tzinfo=tzinfo)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.6-py2.6-win32.egg\trac\util\datefmt.py", line 132, in format_datetime
    return unicode(text, encoding, 'replace')
LookupError: unknown encoding: A

[rblank]

Something seems to be borked with your locale settings. Could you please try the following in a Python shell:

>>> import locale, sys
>>> print locale.getpreferredencoding(), sys.getdefaultencoding()
UTF-8 ascii

[cboos]

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