On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> It doesn't seem to work for me.
[...]
> $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
[...]
> $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";'
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>       LANGUAGE = (unset),
>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>       LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.utf-8",
>       LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
[...]

You probably don't have an en_GB.utf-8 locale (maybe you have
localepurge installed?). I bet en_US.utf-8 will net you different
results.
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