Hi folks, I've got a module + C extension which provides on screen display support in X, via libxosd (http://repose.cx/pyosd). I've recently had a report of trouble where a Russian user was unable to display any Russian text.
I've managed to resolve the issue by inserting the following two lines at the start of the application: import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") .. which I presume alters the way the Russian text is passed to X by the underlying library. My question is this: it would be nice if every user of my library didn't need to add the above two lines to their code. But on the other hand, I'm unsure of the implications of modifying the locale from within a module, and it doesn't seem very clean. Would calling setlocale() from a library be a bad thing? If so, any alternative recommendations would be greatly welcome. Kind regards, Damien -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
