albertjan added the comment: Hi,
Thanks for your replies. Eryksun (nice to meet you here too!), your function seems very useful, thank you very much. I had indeed already switched to your 'getrawlocale' approach. Perhaps off-topic (because I have never seen this happen in Windows), but locale.getlocale() sometimes returns (None, None), *even if* locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") has been called at the start of the program. For some reason, LANG, LC_ALL and possible other vars are sometimes not set correctly (I know this is not Python's fault, but...). Would it be a good idea to have a 'failsafe' parameter in getlocale? Something like: def safe_getlocale(failsafe=False): current_locale = locale.getlocale() if failsafe and current_locale[0] is None and not sys.platform.startswith("win"): os.environ["LANG"] = "en_US.UTF-8" os.environ["LC_ALL"] = "en_US.UTF-8" current_locale = locale.getlocale() return current_locale (sorry for squeezing this in the current issue!) Albert-Jan ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23425> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com