vincent.chute added the comment:
"Since the module predates unicode strings (it is in 1.5) and since the locale
string is passed to a C function, 'string' in the doc can just as well be taken
to mean ascii byte string only, as the code requires."
My only comment is that
New submission from vincent.chute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
import locale
locale.setlocale( locale.LC_ALL, u'ja_JP.utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 475, in setlocale
locale = normali
vincent.chute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I have confirmed this exists on trunk
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/locale.py?rev=63824&view=markup
(63824 is the latest)
where the line in question is now 475
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