Call locale.setlocale() to load locale

Fixes raising an exception on pip._internal.utils.encoding.auto_decode when requirement.txt has unique symblols.
jazzband · May 5, 2019 · 5cb1764 · 5cb1764
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diff --git a/piptools/__init__.py b/piptools/__init__.py
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+import locale
+
+from piptools.click import secho
+
+# Needed for locale.getpreferredencoding(False) to work
+# in pip._internal.utils.encoding.auto_decode
+try:
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
+except locale.Error as e: # pragma: no cover
+ # setlocale can apparently crash if locale are uninitialized
+ secho("Ignoring error when setting locale: {}".format(e), fg="red")