There is something I don't understand about string.printable: on the one hand the library reference says "This is a combination of digits, letters, punctuation, and whitespace." The value of string.letters is locale-dependent, so string.printable should change as well after calling locale.setlocale(). But it doesn't.string.printable is a least-common denominator ASCII set. You can certainly make it string.printable + "aeioun" (replacing the ASCII letters with their accented versions in your codeset of course).
But you could always call locale.setlocale() and afterwards combine your "printable" string yourself.
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