Player on macOS does not start with evironment variable LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

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Player Version#: 1.37.0.2706-5b2cfe50

user@macbook ~ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

user@macbook ~ Applications/Plex.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex
Non-C locale detected. This is not supported.
Call 'setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");' in your code.

user@macbook ~ LC_NUMERIC=C Applications/Plex.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex
# runs as expected

It seems it is caused by python-mpv.
Pls fix by code or Info.plist environment variable.

Thanks!

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Is there an solution to this topic? I have the same problem, plex app is not starting anymore (Mac OSX 10.15.7 Catalina).
THX for help!

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Out of curiosity, why are you launching the GUI Plex application from the CLI?

The default locale is C when launching from the Dock/Finder.

Terminal.app is what’s changing it. One option is to disable this in Terminal.app:

Terminal → Preferences → Profiles → Advanced
uncheck Set local environment variables on startup

Or unset LOCALE; open /Applications/Plex.app.

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I just used CLI to investigate the issue. Icon stopped to work for me because I changed system locale a time ago via .zprofile for both CLI and GUI apps:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
launchctl setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8

I guess python-mpv was integrated recently and plex does not start via icon anymore.
It is annoying (another app requires en_US.UTF-8) :slight_smile:

offtopic: I use Alacritty instead Terminal.app…

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you need to find what sets your system environment variables. via terminal you can try one of:

launchctl unsetenv LANG
launchctl setenv LC_NUMERIC C

but I do not now your situation so I do not advise how to set it permanent.

I disabled my custom environment changes and I switch locale only when I need… so Plex is not affected then. Anyway it should be fixed in Plex

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Thank you very much for your tipps but it didn’t work .-(

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I’ve recently created a duplicate of this thread (Pardon!) and, just for the sake of completeness, I’ll leave a link here.

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