[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

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[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Removing issue assignment, as I'm not actively investigating this. -- assignee: ncoghlan -> ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: (Removed the patch keyword, as the linked PR was for an old change that didn't cover the remaining test issues) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: There are a couple of cases that the C locale coercion tests skip because I don't (or didn't) know what they *should* do: * https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/24dc2f8c56697f9ee51a4887cf0814b6600c1815/Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py#L262 (skips the

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

STINNER Victor added the comment: Since this issue has been created, I deeply reworked the Python Initialization with the PEP 587, and I made many changes related to locales and the UTF-8 Mode (PEP 540). What's the status of this issue? -- nosy: +vstinner

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

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[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

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[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Putting back to normal, as the difference between the C locale and the POSIX locale is that you never get the latter by default - you have to explicitly request it. The underlying fix for this is in the PR for bpo-34589. -- dependencies:

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The locale module has its own extra layer of oddities that I don't personally understand - #29571 and #20087 are another couple of issues along those lines. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the headsup, Nick. BTW, some of the discussion in languishing Issue18378 might be relevant here. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Ned, I'd forgotten about the part of this issue which amounts to "Check for 'POSIX' as a locale coercion trigger in addition to 'C', as not every platform aliases the former to the latter the way glibc does". So while I don't think this is

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: As discussed in https://bugs.python.org/issue32238 and https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/151105.html, I now think the right answer for the POSIX case is to ensure the legacy locale detection logic always treats that

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

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[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Flagging issue 30647 as a dependency, since the problem with breaking nl_langinfo will need to be fixed before these tests can be re-enabled. -- dependencies: +CODESET error on AMD64 FreeBSD 10.x Shared 3.x caused by the PEP 538

[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: It seems the "POSIX is not just an alias for the C locale" behaviour is inherited from *BSD, rather than being specific to Mac OS X: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20FreeBSD%20CURRENT%20Debug%20custom/builds/12/steps/test/logs/stdio --