New submission from Vidar Fauske:
The Norwegian locale on Windows has the honor of having the only locale name
with a non-ASCII character ('Norwegian Bokmål_Norway', see e.g.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Changes_To_Norwegian_Locale). It does not seem
like python 3 is able to handle this properly, as the following code
demonstrates:
>python
Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:44:40) [MSC v.1600 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'swedish')
'Swedish_Sweden.1252'
>>> loc_sw = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'norwegian')
'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.1252'
>>> loc_no = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, loc_sw)
'Swedish_Sweden.1252'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, loc_no)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\prog\WinPython-64bit-3.4.3.7\python-3.4.3.amd64\lib\locale.py", line
593, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
As can be seen, this can be worked around when setting the locale manually, but
if the locale has already been set to Norwegian, the value returned from
getlocale is invalid when passed to setlocale.
Following the example of postgres in the link above, I suggest changing the
behavior of locale.getlocale to alias 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.1252' as
'Norwegian_Norway.1252', which is completely ASCII, and therefore fine.
----------
components: Unicode, Windows
messages: 257608
nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vidartf,
zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Non-ascii Windows locale names
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4
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