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django1.4 admin error

Error whil creating super user in django1.4 on MAC

I got the following error while trying to create a super user from shell for django1.4. File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py”, line 85, in get_system_username     return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]) TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None This problem was rectified by running this command in terminal before adding the user export LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″ I’m guessing this character encoding