----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: python-list@python.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: locale bug in Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 (Win7 64)?
>
> On 09/02/2015 15:43, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the locale module we have:
>> * setlocale, the setter that also returns something
>> * getlocale, the getter that returns the OS-specific locale tuple
> (supposedly!)
>>
>> * getdefaultlocale, the getter that always returns a unix locale tuple
>>
>> Why are the getlocale() results below sometimes windows-like, sometimes
> unix-like?
>> It seems that I need to use setlocale(), with only the 'category'
> parameter, right?
>>
>>
>> ActivePython 3.3.2.0 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
>> Python 3.3.2 (default, Sep 16 2013, 23:11:39) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]
> on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
> "license" for more information.
>>>>> import locale
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> (None, None) # because setocale has not been called yet
>>
>>
>> # works as expected
>>
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>> 'Dutch_Netherlands.1252'
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> ('Dutch_Netherlands', '1252')
>>
>> # bug!>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "german")
>> 'German_Germany.1252'
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> ('de_DE', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
>>
>>
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,
> "German_Germany.1252")
>> 'German_Germany.1252'
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> ('de_DE', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
>>
>>
>> # bug!
>>
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "spanish")
>> 'Spanish_Spain.1252'
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> ('es_ES', 'cp1252') # incorect, unix-like!
>>
>>
>> # works as expected
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "italian")
>> 'Italian_Italy.1252'
>>>>> locale.getlocale()
>> ('Italian_Italy', '1252') # correct!
>>
>>
>> # ... maybe more?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Albert-Jan
>>
>
> There have been loads of bug reports on the issue tracker about locales.
> I suggest that you take a look to see if there is an open issue about
> this problem.
Hi Mark -Thanks! I checked the bug tracker. Lots of locale-related bugs indeed.
I couldn't find this one though. Strange because what I am doing does not seem
exotic at all. French, German, Portuguese and Spanish getlocale results are
incorrect IMHO. Below is little check + output here in case it might be useful
for others. This is with Python 3.4, 3.3 and 2.7 on Windows 7 64.
from __future__ import print_function
import locale
import collections
import pprint
#https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
languages = ("chinese czech danish dutch english finnish french german greek "
"hungarian icelandic italian japanese korean norwegian polish "
"portuguese russian slovak spanish swedish turkish")
d = collections.defaultdict(list)
t = collections.namedtuple("Locale", "lang setlocale getlocale")
for language in languages.split():
sloc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, language)
gloc = locale.getlocale()
record = t(language, sloc, gloc)
if gloc[0][2] == "_":
d["unix-like"].append(record)
else:
d["windows-like"].append(record)
pprint.pprint(dict(d))
n:\>C:\Miniconda3\python.exe N:\temp\loc.py
{'unix-like': [Locale(lang='french', setlocale='French_France.1252',
getlocale=('fr_FR', 'cp1252')),
Locale(lang='german', setlocale='German_Germany.1252',
getlocale=('de_DE', 'cp1252')),
Locale(lang='portuguese', setlocale='Portuguese_Brazil.1252',
getlocale=('pt_BR', 'cp1252')),
Locale(lang='spanish', setlocale='Spanish_Spain.1252',
getlocale=('es_ES', 'cp1252'))],
'windows-like': [Locale(lang='chinese', setlocale="Chinese
(Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936", getlocale=("Chinese
(Simplified)_People's Republic of China", '936')),
Locale(lang='czech', setlocale='Czech_Czech Republic.1250',
getlocale=('Czech_Czech Republic', '1250')),
Locale(lang='danish', setlocale='Danish_Denmark.1252',
getlocale=('Danish_Denmark', '1252')),
Locale(lang='dutch', setlocale='Dutch_Netherlands.1252',
getlocale=('Dutch_Netherlands', '1252')),
Locale(lang='english', setlocale='English_United
States.1252', getlocale=('English_United States', '1252')),
Locale(lang='finnish', setlocale='Finnish_Finland.1252',
getlocale=('Finnish_Finland', '1252')),
Locale(lang='greek', setlocale='Greek_Greece.1253',
getlocale=('Greek_Greece', '1253')),
Locale(lang='hungarian', setlocale='Hungarian_Hungary.1250',
getlocale=('Hungarian_Hungary', '1250')),
Locale(lang='icelandic', setlocale='Icelandic_Iceland.1252',
getlocale=('Icelandic_Iceland', '1252')),
Locale(lang='italian', setlocale='Italian_Italy.1252',
getlocale=('Italian_Italy', '1252')),
Locale(lang='japanese', setlocale='Japanese_Japan.932',
getlocale=('Japanese_Japan', '932')),
Locale(lang='korean', setlocale='Korean_Korea.949',
getlocale=('Korean_Korea', '949')),
Locale(lang='norwegian', setlocale='Norwegian
(Bokmål)_Norway.1252', getlocale=('Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway', '1252')),
Locale(lang='polish', setlocale='Polish_Poland.1250',
getlocale=('Polish_Poland', '1250')),
Locale(lang='russian', setlocale='Russian_Russia.1251',
getlocale=('Russian_Russia', '1251')),
Locale(lang='slovak', setlocale='Slovak_Slovakia.1250',
getlocale=('Slovak_Slovakia', '1250')),
Locale(lang='swedish', setlocale='Swedish_Sweden.1252',
getlocale=('Swedish_Sweden', '1252')),
Locale(lang='turkish', setlocale='Turkish_Turkey.1254',
getlocale=('Turkish_Turkey', '1254'))]}
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