[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

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[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

Change by Eryk Sun : -- components: +Windows nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

albertjan added the comment: Hi, Thanks for your replies. Eryksun (nice to meet you here too!), your function seems very useful, thank you very much. I had indeed already switched to your 'getrawlocale' approach. Perhaps off-topic (because I have never seen this happen in Windows), but

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

R. David Murray added the comment: This is either related to or effectively a duplicate of issue 10466, which contains a fair amount of discussion of the underlying problems. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

R. David Murray added the comment: Sorry, when I said effectively a duplicate I didn't mean *actually* a duplicate, I meant that fixing one will either result in or require fixing the other (same core cause: the disconnect between the Windows names and the unix names and the need for a

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

albertjan added the comment: I agree that the two issues are related, but I don't see how they could be duplicates. But maybe that's because I do not know the underlying code. issue 10466 is mostly about getdefaultlocale() and whether it's desirable or not that its return value is always

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

eryksun added the comment: -setlocale should return nothing. It's a setter -getlocale should return a platform-specific locale specification, probably what is currently returned by setlocale. The output should be ready for consumption by setlocale. These functions are well documented, so

[issue23425] Windows getlocale unix-like with french, german, portuguese, spanish

New submission from albertjan: getlocale() is supposed to (?) return a locale two-tuple in a platform-specific notation. However, in *Windows* 7 64, with Python 3.4, 3.3 and 2.7 a *unix-like*, abbreviated, lang_territory notation is used for french, german, portuguese, spanish. In other