Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

R. David Murray wrote:
> 
> R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:
> 
> I had a report from a user on IRC during the bug weekend that they could not 
> reproduce the failure on windows.  So it may be dependent on the windows 
> version.  That doesn't answer your question of why it hasn't come up before, 
> though, since my tests were done on XP.

Some research shows that the MS VCRT uses non-ISO locale names
for setlocale():

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hzz3tw78.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdax410z.aspx

and it doesn't support the ISO style locale namings, even though
the setlocale() page says "The set of available languages, country/region 
codes, and code pages
includes all those supported by the Win32 NLS API" and the Win32
API does support the ISO names:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd373814(VS.85).aspx

I'll have to check whether Vista also shows this behavior. On
Win XP the setlocale() API doesn't accept ISO language names;
I can confirm that. It only accepts the fully written out
form described on the above pages.

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