knoppix@Knoppix:~$ locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=us LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=C knoppix@Knoppix:~$ tovidgui Error: Could not get default locale. You should be able to fix this by setting LANG or LC_ALL: LANG=en_US.utf8 tovidgui, or LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 tovidgui Set LANG or LC_ALL in your ~/.profile to avoid this error. knoppix@Knoppix:~$ python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 26 2007, 00:02:45) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() (None, None)