Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net>:
> "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?=" <trond.endres...@ximalas.info>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes:
>>> $ python3
>>> >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
>>> >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
>>> 'ti, 03 tammi\xa0 2012 14:51:57 +0200 (EET)'
>>
>> It may be OS-specific.
>
> You're right. It's a generic linux problem (in the coreutils rpm of
> Fedora). An analogous C program demonstrates the same issue.
Actually, it's working as designed, no bug at all.
It turns out the "garbage" character is the nonbreaking space:
>>> print(time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)"))
ke, 04 tammi 2012 15:03:21 +0200 (EET)
The apparent intent is to make all month abbreviations equally long (six
characters).
Marko
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