Spacy: "ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8" on import

[stared]

While importing spacy (import spacy) I am getting ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8.
I don't have such problems with any other Python library.

Full log

ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-cd990d92ffc3> in <module>()
----> 1 import spacy
      2 from spacy import displacy

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/__init__.py in <module>()
      2 from __future__ import unicode_literals
      3 
----> 4 from .cli.info import info as cli_info
      5 from .glossary import explain
      6 from .about import __version__

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/cli/__init__.py in <module>()
----> 1 from .download import download
      2 from .info import info
      3 from .link import link
      4 from .package import package
      5 from .profile import profile

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/cli/download.py in <module>()
      8 import sys
      9 
---> 10 from .link import link
     11 from ..util import prints, get_package_path
     12 from .. import about

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/cli/link.py in <module>()
      6 
      7 from ..compat import symlink_to, path2str
----> 8 from ..util import prints
      9 from .. import util
     10 

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spacy/util.py in <module>()
      6 import pkg_resources
      7 import importlib
----> 8 import regex as re
      9 from pathlib import Path
     10 import sys

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/regex.py in <module>()
    681 
    682 # We define _pattern_type here after all the support objects have been defined.
--> 683 _pattern_type = type(_compile("", 0, {}))
    684 
    685 # We'll define an alias for the 'compile' function so that the repr of a

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/regex.py in _compile(pattern, flags, kwargs)
    434     if _locale_sensitive.get(locale_key, True) or (flags & LOCALE) != 0:
    435         # This pattern is, or might be, locale-sensitive.
--> 436         pattern_locale = _getlocale()[1]
    437     else:
    438         # This pattern is definitely not locale-sensitive.

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/locale.py in getlocale(category)
    575     if category == LC_ALL and ';' in localename:
    576         raise TypeError('category LC_ALL is not supported')
--> 577     return _parse_localename(localename)
    578 
    579 def setlocale(category, locale=None):

/Users/pmigdal/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/locale.py in _parse_localename(localename)
    484     elif code == 'C':
    485         return None, None
--> 486     raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
    487 
    488 def _build_localename(localetuple):

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Your Environment

• OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)
• Python version: 3.5.3 (Anaconda installation)
• spaCy version: 2.0.1
• Platform: Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

[honnibal]

I think you need to set export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 in your terminal session before running jupyter. Jupyter should then inherit this environment variable.

Setting your locale is generally a good idea anyway, especially for natural language processing work. Without this, some of your print statements will fail, which is always frustrating.

[stared]

Thx @honnibal!

I see that setting it in ~/.bash_profile helped (instead of typing it each time).

Yet - is UTF-8 not enough for printing functions?

[honnibal]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Sometimes I wish Bash made sense to me...But then I think, if I found Bash intuitive, what would that say about my intuition?

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