New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: Right now, the legacy locale detection introduced in PEP 538 doesn't trigger for "LANG=POSIX" and "LC_CTYPE=POSIX" on macOS and other *BSD systems.
This is because we're looking specifically for "C" as the response from "setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)", which works on Linux (where glibc reports "C" if you configured "POSIX"), but not on *BSD systems (where POSIX and C behave the same way, but are still reported as distinct locales). As per Jakub Wilk's comments at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/151105.html, this isn't right: we should allow either string to be returned from setlocale, and consider both of them as indicating a legacy locale to be coerced to an explicitly UTF-8 based one if possible. ---------- components: FreeBSD, Interpreter Core, Unicode, macOS messages: 307781 nosy: ezio.melotti, koobs, ncoghlan, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, vstinner priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: Handle "POSIX" in the legacy locale detection type: behavior versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32238> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
