From 02309684f731fe5afcb9935f921cb9b6cd0f8d78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:15:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Catch locale.error as well. Fixes #788378.

---
 Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py | 2 +-
 Misc/NEWS                | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 0c3ae7f85e14..391be77f53b5 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ except ImportError:
 try:
     import locale
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, locale.error):
     pass
 
 encoding = "ascii"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ba9684b6f3c3..773923c14063 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Library
 IDLE
 ----
 
+- Bug #788378: Handle locale.error.
+
 - Bug #774680: IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore
   if the Tk buffer is not a Unicode string, yet eol_convention is.
 
-- 
2.47.3