Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'url:msdn': 0.07; 'aliases': 0.09; 'assumed': 0.09; 'locale': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:skip:a 10': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'language.': 0.14; 'windows': 0.15; 'hint': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'suggestion.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'example': 0.22; 'programming': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'skip:l 30': 0.24; 'second': 0.26; 'supported': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'subject:list': 0.30; "skip:' 10": 0.31; 'work:': 0.31; 'open': 0.33; 'checking': 0.33; 'guess': 0.33; "i'd": 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'similar': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'url:microsoft': 0.37; 'same.': 0.38; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'issue': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'received:173': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'name': 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'url:en-us': 0.68; 'link:': 0.72; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'mistake': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Sorting list alphabetically Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:11:29 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-254-207.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1398719544 news.xs4all.nl 2924 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33250 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70695 On 4/28/2014 2:33 AM, Kev Dwyer wrote: > Hello Terry, > > Regarding your second point, my mistake in not checking the link: > I'd seen a similar one elsewhere and assumed they were the same. > > This link should work: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hzz3tw78 > > > As to your first point, you're right, it seems setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, > 'en_US.UTF-8') doesn't work on Windows. From what I read of the link above and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/goglobal/bb896001.aspx given therein, I am going to guess that .UTF-8 is not supported for any language. > It seems the locale name needs to be one of the aliases provided > at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf, so for example > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'usa') returns > 'English_United States.1252'. > > Do you know if this is something people programming on Windows > should just be aware of, or is there a case for a hint of some > kind in the locale module documentation? *Definitely the latter. Perhaps you could open an issue with a specific suggestion. -- Terry Jan Reedy