Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 27.11.2015 23:11, STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor added the comment: > > I don't see the benefit of supporting Unicode strings for setlocale() > arguments: locale name are always encodable to ASCII, so loc.decode('ascii') > is enough to workaround the issue. > > But well, I think it's ok if it doesn't make the code much more complex ;-) > > I wrote a patch, what do you think?
Thanks :-) > Is it worth it? ;-) I think so, since the current failure for Unicode is rather obscure. BTW: Why did you use (_str, _unicode) instead of basestring ? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25742> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com