# HG changeset patch
# User jruigrok
# Date 1197546696 0
# Node ID 257534b131bdfb57b6631f7f3af3e2779e2699dd
# Parent  4b840d9f232bf509aea76143555e4d20df362309
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: