Message 240667 - Python tracker

Message240667

Author	akuchling
Recipients	akuchling, georg.brandl, jlgijsbers, lemburg, loewis, meonkeys, mhammond, syvere, tim.peters
Date	2015-04-13.17:19:18
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Message-id	<1428945559.04.0.455108767037.issue504219@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It doesn't seem to me that we've really deprecated getdefaultlocale() -- it's not documented as such, and MAL makes the good point that getdefaultlocale() is trying to avoid calling setlocale(). Perhaps this is just a documentation problem? _build_localename() just glues together the language code and the encoding, resulting in things like en_US.ISO8859-1, which turns out to not work. So maybe we should document that getdefaultlocale() will sometimes guess wrong.

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It doesn't seem to me that we've really deprecated getdefaultlocale() -- it's not documented as such, and MAL makes the good point that getdefaultlocale() is trying to avoid calling setlocale().

Perhaps this is just a documentation problem?  _build_localename() just glues together the language code and the encoding, resulting in things like en_US.ISO8859-1, which turns out to not work.  So maybe we should document that getdefaultlocale() will sometimes guess wrong.

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