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unknown locale: UTF-8 error
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We had this error when I was trying to use django rest swagger in the api we built,

unknown locale: UTF-8
Request Method:	GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/docs
Django Version:	1.8.2
Exception Type:	ValueError
Exception Value:	
unknown locale: UTF-8```

We had to set locale to en_US by doing this in the bash profile - 
` export LC_CTYPE=en_us `
Then restarted the bash profile using `source` and that solved the problem.

To check if the issue has been solved, on a python shell, do  
```import locale```   
```locale.getdefaultlocale() ```  
It should show you default locale as `en_US` without throwing errors.
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