Error on importing matplotlib. Please help!!

[MiraYugario]

When I give the command
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
I am getting the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py", line 1131, in
rcParams = rc_params()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py", line 975, in rc_params
return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py", line 1100, in rc_params_from_file
config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py", line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file
with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in enter
return self.gen.next()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/init.py", line 1000, in _open_file_or_url
encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 543, in getdefaultlocale
return _parse_localename(localename)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 475, in _parse_localename
raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

How to fix this?

[bsipocz]

@MiraYugario - This is the issue tracker of the photutils package. Please stop posting unrelated issues. Please use the appropriate forums for these, like the Python users in Astronomy fb group, or stackoverflow or google.

E.g. have you tried the solutions that google pops up as the first hit from e.g. stackoverflow or from mpl's issue tracker?

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19961239/pelican-3-3-pelican-quickstart-error-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf-8
• [Mac OS X 10.10.5] Macports install error :unknown locale: UTF-8 matplotlib/matplotlib#5420