On 6 December 2017 at 15:59, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Something I've just noticed that needs to be clarified: on Linux, "C" >> locale and "POSIX" locale are aliases, but this isn't true in general >> (e.g. it's not the case on *BSD systems, including Mac OS X). > > For those of us with little to no BSD/MacOS experience, can you give a > quick run-down of the differences between "C" and "POSIX"?
The one that's relevant to default locale detection is just the string that "setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)" returns. On Linux (or, more accurately, with glibc), after setting "LC_CTYPE=POSIX", that call still returns "C" (since the "POSIX" locale is defined as an alias for the "C" locale). By contrast, on *BSD, it will return "POSIX" (since "POSIX" is actually a distinct locale there). Beyond that, I don't know what the actual functional differences are. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
