From 800729e092577bca0398b59d9ab68d2351782c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Hogg <michael.christopher.hogg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:24:22 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Update PpmImagePlugin.py

Bug fix when locale has not been set
---
 PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
index a9c2bb283..444342bee 100644
--- a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ from PIL import Image, ImageFile
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import locale
-locale_name,locale_id = locale.getlocale()
-b_whitespace = string.whitespace.decode(locale_id)
+locale_lang,locale_enc = locale.getlocale()
+if locale_enc is None:
+    locale_lang,locale_enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+b_whitespace = string.whitespace.decode(locale_enc)
 b_whitespace = b_whitespace.encode('ascii','ignore')
 
 MODES = {