Ubuntu Natty: Fixing "unknown locale" in Python

The fix itself is the same as for Python 2.5 – only the line numbers have changed.

Open the file /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py and find the line containing en_gb (line 921) and add these lines (this works for Danish locales):

    'en_dk':                                'en_DK.ISO8859-1',
    'en_dk.iso88591':                       'en_DK.ISO8859-1',
    '[email protected]':                           'en_DK.ISO8859-15',

In order to avoid this change getting overwritten by packages updates, I use dpkg-divert:

$ sudo dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py.real /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py
$ sudo cp /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py.real /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py

If you wish to remove the diversion (if the package is fixed to support you locale at some point) simply run

$ sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py