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-rw-r--r--django/utils/tzinfo.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/django/utils/tzinfo.py b/django/utils/tzinfo.py
index 0c85735941..e2e1d10fc1 100644
--- a/django/utils/tzinfo.py
+++ b/django/utils/tzinfo.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import time
from datetime import timedelta, tzinfo
from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
-DEFAULT_ENCODING = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or 'ascii'
class FixedOffset(tzinfo):
"Fixed offset in minutes east from UTC."