[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

Eryk Sun added the comment: The locale_alias database was extended to support "en_AG" and many others, but I'd still prefer Serhiy's suggestion to not guess the codeset when checking the default LC_CTYPE category. Use locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET), if it's available. In Windows, I'd p

[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

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[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

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[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

eryksun added the comment: For 3.5 this affects Windows as well, since the new CRT supports RFC1766 language codes, but only without a codepage spec: Python 3.5.0a1 (v3.5.0a1:5d4b6a57d5fd, Feb 7 2015, 18:15:14) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credit

[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

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[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

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[issue20088] locale.getlocale() fails if locale name doesn't include encoding

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: >>> import locale, _locale >>> _locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, 'en_AG') 'en_AG' >>> _locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) 'en_AG' >>> locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/L