STINNER Victor added the comment: > The default locale on Fedora is indeed UTF-8 these days - the problem is that > *users* are used to being able to use "LANG=C" to force the POSIX locale > (whether for testing purposes or other reasons), and that currently means > system utilities written in Python may fail in such situations if used with > UTF-8 data from the filesystem (or elsewhere). (I believe there may also be > other cases where POSIX mandates the use of the C locale, but Toshio would be > in a better position than I am to confirm whether or not that is actually the > case).
A common situation where you get a C locale is for programs started by a crontab. If I remember correctly, these programs start with the C locale, instead of the "system" (user?) locale. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
