astropy/astropy — pull request #1098 by mdboom (2013-07-26 22:03:17+00:00)
Title: Set locale to C on Travis

I think most of the developers are on systems that are configured for `utf-8`, so we miss a certain class of bugs that reveal themselves when the encoding is `ascii`.

As a backstop for this, should we set at least some of the Travis tests to run with `ascii` as the preferred encoding?

```
LC_CTYPE=C python setup.py test ...
```

should be sufficient.