Fixed #5846 -- Bullet-proofed the default timezone encoding test.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7184 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
django · Feb 29, 2008 · 2dbb08e · 2dbb08e
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diff --git a/django/utils/tzinfo.py b/django/utils/tzinfo.py
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
 from datetime import timedelta, tzinfo
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 
-DEFAULT_ENCODING = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or 'ascii'
+try:
+    DEFAULT_ENCODING = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or 'ascii'
+except:
+    # Any problems at all determining the locale and we fallback. See #5846.
+    DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'ascii'
 
 class FixedOffset(tzinfo):
     "Fixed offset in minutes east from UTC."