altern said :
>
> >>set locale this can be done from python
> >>
> >>import locale
> >>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')
> >
> >I just quickly browsed through the Python doc for this module, and it
> >seems to me that this just to be used by an application to change which
> >locale it should used
> > - C if not set
> > - system default if called with locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')
> > - custom if called with locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'blabla')
> >
> >So unless I miss the point, or read too fast, this is not setting the
> >system default locale, which is what we want here :)
> >
> >Meaning we probably have to set and store $LANG for the users that will
> >run this tool.
>
> yes i realised earlier today about this. So we will need to mix
> shell commands with python commands when we find they help. I think
> in the case of getting the installed locales it does, does it?
>
> import os
> os.listdir('/usr/lib/locale')
>
> >>> ['en_GB.utf8', 'de_DE.utf8', 'es_ES.utf8', 'eu_ES.utf8',
> 'ru_RU.utf8', 'locale-archive', 'fr_FR.utf8', 'en_US.utf8']
>
> but the python output is different than the shell command output,
> python only reads the .utf8 items
>
> % locale -a
> C
> de_DE.iso885915
> de_DE.utf8
> en_GB.utf8
> en_US.utf8
> es_ES.iso885915
> es_ES.utf8
> eu_ES.iso885915
> eu_ES.utf8
> eu_FR.iso885915
> fr_FR.iso885915
> fr_FR.utf8
> it_IT.iso885915
> POSIX
> pt_BR.iso885915
> ru_RU.koi8r
> ru_RU.utf8
> sl_SI.iso885915
>
> i dont know very well, as you probably noticed, all this locale
> stuff so if i say something stupid just tell me ;) i will try not
> to...
This is correct :)
I'm also puzzled by this difference.
On my system both methods works correctly
['fr_FR.utf8', 'fr_CH.utf8', 'fr_LU.utf8', 'fr_CA.utf8', 'fr_BE.utf8',
'en_US.utf8']
locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
fr_LU.utf8
POSIX
We can ignore C and POSIX in the selector.
Not sure why your results are not different..
try to sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales ?
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