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 fully agree.
I commented that, if a proper locale is installed,
the following should work on any system:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('hr', locale.getpreferredencoding()))
Currently the above does not work on Windows,
and that is because the locale_alias for 'hr'
is bound to 'hr_HR.ISO8859-2'.
Check the source: .../Python-3.2.2/Lib/locale.py, line 537
I was arguing that, on a Windows system,
the locale_alias for 'hr' should be bound
to 'Croatian_Croatia.1250'.
Looks like you have found a bug! :-) Why don't you post a bug report?
L
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