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Re: Locale bug?

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Locale bug?
References <m3ty4dc5b7.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <8739bwop3y.fsf@enterprise.ximalas.info>
Date 2012-01-04 14:51 +0200
Message-ID <m3pqezd41b.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (permalink)
Organization NBL Networks Oy

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"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?=" <Trond.Endrestol@ximalas.info>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@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.

> Your sample code runs fine on FreeBSD/i386

>     trond@enterprise:~>python3.2
>     >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
>     >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
>     'Ti, 03 Tam 2012 15:03:15 +0100 (CET)'

Well, "Ti" and "Tam" probably shouldn't be capitalized...


Marko

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Locale bug? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2012-01-03 14:57 +0200
  Re: Locale bug? =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@ximalas.info> - 2012-01-03 15:08 +0100
    Re: Locale bug? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2012-01-04 14:51 +0200
      Re: Locale bug? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2012-01-04 15:07 +0200

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