Re: Portable locale usage

[Laszlo Nagy]

I have set the system-wide locale to Croatian (Croatia)
on my development system as instructed by:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-system-locale
Nevertheless, your proposal produces:
('English_United States','1252')
This is what I see on my Hungarian Windows:


C:\Users\User>python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 17:19:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit 
(AMD64)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'Hungarian_Hungary.1250'
>>> locale.getlocale()
('Hungarian_Hungary', '1250')
>>>

So I'm 100% sure that the problem is with your system locale settings, 
not Python.

Note that I would very much like
to avoid changing the system locale
(this requires Administrator password and system restart).
All right. But you understand, that Croatian ISO8859-2 is not supported 
on windows? So you will not be able to sort names with that under a 
windows system? (And it is not a limitation of Python.)
Why are you trying to force a specific locale to your program anyway?
Because I wish to be able to correctly sort Croatian names.
Well, all right. If you want to sort Croatian names from a program that 
runs on an English (or whatever) system, then you will have to check the 
platform and use a locale that is supported by the platform. (But again, 
this is not Python's limitation. Python doesn't know what encodings are 
supported, in advance, and you cannot use a locale that is not supported...)
I expect that most of my Windows users will not care
to configure their computers with the national locale
(and besides, that does not seem to work, anyway).
Croatian users will most likely use a Croatian Windows, out of the box. 
And on those systems, using locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') will 
work perfectly. I'm not sure why it doesn't work on an English Windows 
with locale changed... I'm not a big fan of Windows, but I remember once 
I had to install a language pack for Windows before I could use a 
localized program. This might be what you need?

Best,

   Laszlo

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