On 09/02/2015 15:43, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
Hi,
In the locale module we have:
* setlocale, the setter that also returns something
* getlocale, the getter that returns the OS-specific locale tuple (supposedly!)
* getdefaultlocale, the getter that always returns a unix locale tuple
Why are the getlocale() results below sometimes windows-like, sometimes
unix-like?
It seems that I need to use setlocale(), with only the 'category' parameter,
right?
ActivePython 3.3.2.0 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 3.3.2 (default, Sep 16 2013, 23:11:39) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on
win32
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import locale
locale.getlocale()
(None, None) # because setocale has not been called yet
# works as expected
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
'Dutch_Netherlands.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('Dutch_Netherlands', '1252')
# bug!>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "german")
'German_Germany.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('de_DE', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "German_Germany.1252")
'German_Germany.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('de_DE', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
# bug!
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "spanish")
'Spanish_Spain.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('es_ES', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
# works as expected
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "italian")
'Italian_Italy.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('Italian_Italy', '1252') # correct!
# ... maybe more?
Regards,
Albert-Jan
There have been loads of bug reports on the issue tracker about locales.
I suggest that you take a look to see if there is an open issue about
this problem.
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