Robert Kern wrote: >> However it appears from your bug ticket that you have a much narrower >> problem (case-shifting a small known list of English words like VOID) >> and can work around it by writing your own locale-independent casing >> functions. Do you still need to find out whether Python unicode >> casings are locale-dependent? > > I would still like to know. There are other places where .lower() is used in > numpy, not to mention the rest of my code.
"lower" uses the informative case mappings provided by the Unicode character database; see http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.1.0/ucd/UCD.html afaik, changing the locale has no influence whatsoever on Python's Unicode subsystem. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list