On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Glen Malley wrote:
> James Henstridge wrote:
> >
> > You could try using the locale.setlocale() function. Eg:
> > import locale
> > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES, 'ja_JP.ujis')
> >
> > (or maybe LC_ALL). If you set the locale to '', it will look up the
> > environment.
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work. I think I forgot to mention
> that my intention is to have the application set the locale
> regardless of the user's current locale settings.
> So defaulting to the environment the interpreter is running
> in is no good. As I mentioned before, setting the environment
> beforehand DOES work..but is not a good solution.
>
> locale.setlocale doesn't do anything, as far as I can see =P
Well, setlocale(LC_ALL, 'whatever') should be forcing the locale to
'whatever'. At least, it does with python 2.0. It calls the libc
setlocale function.
James.
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