Hi,
After searching a while for a solution on the web and the archive of this newgroups, I haven't found any answer to my questions... So here are they...
Here is a command line session of Python on a Windows XP computer :
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.getdefaultlocale() ('fr_CA', 'cp1252') >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') 'French_Canada.1252' >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_CA') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\Lib\locale.py", line 379, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_Canada') 'English_Canada.1252' >>> locale.getlocale() ['English_Canada', '1252'] >>>
The name of the default locale conform to RFC-1766 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1766.html) when returned by locale.getdefaultlocale whereas setting the locale as 'en_CA' isn't supported (on Windows).
Afterwards, locale.getlocale() isn't returning a "standard" RFC-1766 locale at all...
Is this a "feature" or a bug ? Where has portability gone ?
Moreover on the documentation on locale.getlocale(), it is written: """ Except for the code 'C', the language code corresponds to RFC 1766 """
Thanks for you help.
Stéphane
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