From a42f3e4d9c48532bb6cae53e218bf633116b9e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruud <ruud@crashdummy.nl>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:54:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ref before assigned. fixes #106

---
 couchpotato/runner.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/couchpotato/runner.py b/couchpotato/runner.py
index 217f52b..66d9d7d 100644
--- a/couchpotato/runner.py
+++ b/couchpotato/runner.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def runCouchPotato(options, base_path, args, data_dir = None, log_dir = None, En
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
         encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
     except (locale.Error, IOError):
-        pass
+        encoding = None
 
     # for OSes that are poorly configured I'll just force UTF-8
     if not encoding or encoding in ('ANSI_X3.4-1968', 'US-ASCII', 'ASCII'):