# HG changeset patch
# User jruigrok
# Date 1197546696 0
# Node ID 03b4ed33d4136e807a1e418b8c0884e4fc573e28
# Parent  24418e7f9ee54a23a5f7aa0adbed8b5efd0cbcc0
When using sys.stdout with a pipe or redirection the sys.stdout.encoding value
will be set to None instead of what the environment first specified through
any locale setting. As such, fall back to locale.getpreferredencoding() before
the ultimate fallback to ASCII.

OK: cmlenz
closes: #76

diff --git a/babel/messages/frontend.py b/babel/messages/frontend.py
--- a/babel/messages/frontend.py
+++ b/babel/messages/frontend.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from distutils import log
 from distutils.cmd import Command
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError, DistutilsSetupError
+from locale import getpreferredencoding
 import logging
 from optparse import OptionParser
 import os
@@ -632,7 +633,9 @@
             for identifier in localedata.list():
                 locale = Locale.parse(identifier)
                 output = format % (identifier, locale.english_name)
-                print output.encode(sys.stdout.encoding or 'ascii', 'replace')
+                print output.encode(sys.stdout.encoding or
+                                    getpreferredencoding() or
+                                    'ascii', 'replace')
             return 0
 
         if not args: