Fix errors / warnings when running `python manage.py makemessages` with `xlwt` installed.

fix-makemessages.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# This scripts solves the following error when running Django's makemessages with xlwt installed.
# It also gets rid of the warnings.
#
# CommandError: errors happened while running xgettext on UnicodeUtils.py
# xgettext: ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/UnicodeUtils.py:1: Unknown encoding "windows-1252". Proceeding with ASCII instead.
# xgettext: Non-ASCII string at ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/UnicodeUtils.py:37.
#           Please specify the source encoding through --from-code or through a comment
#           as specified in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.


files_1252=(
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/CompoundDoc.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/UnicodeUtils.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Autofit.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Bitmap.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Cell.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Column.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormula.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormulaLexer.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Row.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Style.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Workbook.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Worksheet.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/country.py
)

files_1251=(
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/Bitmap.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/blanks.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/col_width.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/country.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/dates.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/format.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/formula_names.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/formulas.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/hyperlinks.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/image.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/merged.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/merged0.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/merged1.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/mini.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/num_formats.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/numbers_demo.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/outline.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/panes.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/row_styles.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/row_styles_empty.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/sst.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/unicode1.py
  ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlwt/examples/unicode2.py
)

function convert() {
  local encoding=$1
  shift
  local files=("$@")

  for file in "${files[@]}"; do
    iconv -f "$encoding" -t utf-8 "$file" > "$file.new"
    mv -f "$file.new" "$file"
    sed -i "" "s/coding: $encoding/coding: utf-8/" "$file"
  done
}

convert 'windows-1251' "${files_1251[@]}"
convert 'windows-1252' "${files_1252[@]}"

Hi! I'm having this issue running on python 3.5.2 and django 1.10.7 with xlwt installed via tablib via django-import-export.

Do you know why this is happening in the first place? I cannot find a reference to this issue in the library itself.

How to run this ?