New submission from Mark Grandi <markgra...@gmail.com>:
It seems that something with windows 10, python 3.8, or both changed where `locale.getlocale()` is now returning strange results According to the documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/locale.html?highlight=locale%20getlocale#locale.getlocale , the language code should be in RFC1766 format: Language-Tag = Primary-tag *( "-" Subtag ) Primary-tag = 1*8ALPHA Subtag = 1*8ALPHA Whitespace is not allowed within the tag. but in python 3.8, I am getting a language code that doesn't meet RFC1766 specs: PS C:\Users\auror> py -3 Python 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:37:50) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform; platform.platform() 'Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0' >>> import locale; locale.getlocale(); locale.getdefaultlocale() ('English_United States', '1252') ('en_US', 'cp1252') >>> on the same machine, with python 3.7.4: PS C:\Python37> .\python.exe Python 3.7.4 (tags/v3.7.4:e09359112e, Jul 8 2019, 20:34:20) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform; platform.platform() 'Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0' >>> import locale; locale.getlocale(); locale.getdefaultlocale() (None, None) ('en_US', 'cp1252') >>> also interesting that the encoding is different in py3.8 between `locale.getlocale()` and `locale.getdefaultlocale()`, being '1252' and 'cp1252', this might not be related though as it was present in python 3.7.4 these issues might be related, but stuff found hwen searching for 'locale' bugs: https://bugs.python.org/issue26024 https://bugs.python.org/issue37945 ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 356637 nosy: markgrandi priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: locale.getlocale() returns a non RFC1766 language code type: behavior versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38805> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
