Comment 33 for bug 223281

Added karmic-proposed repository per instructions, sudo apt-get upgraded, tested.

Seems to work fine for me on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic amd64.

Specifics:

dpkg -l python2.6 show3s it installed:
ii python2.6 2.6.4-0ubuntu3 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.6)

for i in $(locale -a) ; do echo $i ; LANG=$i python -c "import locale; print locale.getdefaultlocale()" || break ; done

runs to completion, on a machine with all available language packs installed (so LOTS of locales). So does

for i in $(locale -a) ; do echo $i ; LANG=$i python -c "import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")" || break ; done

Running software-center works as expected.

No issues observed (in admittedly fairly minimal testing).