<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Is there some sort of tutorial on locales or the locale module? | | I can't seem to find a list showing all possible locales. I made 'en' | work alright, but when I tried 'de' or 'de_DE' or 'es_ES', etc. it said | that those were not valid locaes. Worst of all, when I tried 'es' it | said that this was estonian?! Obviously, this is not what ISO 639 says. | 'es' should be Spanish, and Estonian should be 'et.
What makes you think that the underlying C-runtime library cares about ISO639? If you're on Windows (which from what you've written I assume you are), you might want to look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_language_strings.asp (Unfortunately, I know for a fact that this list is *not* exhaustive, at least not for WIN2K or XP.) In addition, you might want to keep in mind - and again this applies to the Windows platform - that what is returned by locale.getdefaultlocale is not suitable as input for the the country/language argument of locale.setlocale (which is somewhat of a pitty, cause I sometimes wish I could do something like "locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ".".join(locale.getdefaultlocale())" ). However, if you really need super-deluxe localization/national language support independent of the C runtime on Windows you may need to wrap the appropriate functions living in winnls.h (or the version of winnls.h contained in the platform SDK) - some of which may have already found there way into the Python for Win32 Extensions (GetDateFormat for example). Regards, -- Vincent Wehren | | Anyway, I'd love to have a method called get_available_locales to tell | me what I can use on my machine, or something like that. | | Can anyone tell me how I *do* get these names? | | Thanks | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
