losing locale when running fcgi script - django

Question

I'm facing an issue with encoding in running a django app.
I finally found out my django app has no locale set.
The weird thing is that I did set up the envvars file correctly. With this in envvars :
export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid
## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav
export LANG=C
## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead:
. /etc/default/locale
export LANG
locale
When I restart apache the locale command gets executed and I get correct fr_FR.UTF-8 settings for LANG and LC_*.
Now I set up a little test.fcgi script :
#!/usr/bin/python
def myapp(environ, start_response):
start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
from commands import getoutput
return ["%s"%getoutput("locale")]
from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
WSGIServer(myapp).run()
when I run it with
sudo -u www-data test.fcgi
I get the correct locale settings as well.
But whenever I access the script through a web browser, I get no locale settings :
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
How come Apache has the right setting but my fcgi script hasn't?

Answer 1

I solved it by adding DefaultInitEnv LANG "en_US.UTF-8" in my sites-available/default. Now the fcgi script tells me UTF-8 !