[Zope] Zope 2.7.3b2 dies on startup

[Dennis Allison]

I appears to be a unicode error


zopectl> debug 
Starting debugger (the name "app" is bound to the top-level Zope object)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line
51, in app
    startup()
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line
47, in startup
    _startup()
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/App/startup.py",
line 45, in startup
    OFS.Application.import_products()
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/OFS/Application.py",
line 637, in import_products
    import_product(product_dir, product_name, raise_exc=debug_mode)
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/OFS/Application.py",
line 660, in import_product
    product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly)
  File
"/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Products/ZReST/__init__.py",
line 7, in ?
    import ZReST
  File
"/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Products/ZReST/ZReST.py", line
10, in ?
    import docutils.core, docutils.io
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/docutils/core.py", line
22, in ?
    from docutils import frontend, io, utils, readers, writers
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/docutils/utils.py",
line 18, in ?
    from docutils import frontend, nodes
  File "/usr/local/src/zope2.7/Zope-2.7/lib/python/docutils/nodes.py",
line 29, in ?
    import xml.dom.minidom
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/__init__.py",
line 237, in ?
    import MessageSource
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/MessageSource.py",
line 22, in ?
    gettext.install('4Suite', locale_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gettext.py", line 428, in install
    translation(domain, localedir, fallback=True).install(unicode)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gettext.py", line 416, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gettext.py", line 176, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gettext.py", line 304, in _parse
    tmsg = unicode(tmsg, self._charset)
LookupError: unknown encoding: CHARSET

The python is a fresh compile of 2.3.4 with PyXML-0.8.2.

A quick google did not turn up anything useful.  Any thoughts?