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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:43:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
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Subject: locale bug in Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 (Win7 64)?
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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
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 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




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