Mike FABIAN added the comment: The problem turns out to be caused by a problem in normalizing the locale name, see the output of this test program:
mfabian@ari:~ $ cat ~/tmp/mike-test.py #!/usr/bin/python2 import sys import os import locale import encodings import encodings.aliases test_locales = [ 'ja_JP.UTF-8', 'de_DE.SJIS', 'de_DE.foobar', 'sr_RS.UTF-8@latin', 'sr_rs@latin', 'sr@latin', 'sr_yu', 'sr_yu.SJIS@devanagari', 'sr@foobar', 'sR@foObar', 'sR', ] for test_locale in test_locales: print("%(orig)s -> %(norm)s" %{'orig': test_locale, 'norm': locale.normalize(test_locale)} ) mfabian@ari:~ $ python2 ~/tmp/mike-test.py ja_JP.UTF-8 -> ja_JP.UTF-8 de_DE.SJIS -> de_DE.SJIS de_DE.foobar -> de_DE.foobar sr_RS.UTF-8@latin -> sr_RS.utf_8_latin sr_rs@latin -> sr_RS.UTF-8@latin sr@latin -> sr_RS.UTF-8@latin sr_yu -> sr_RS.UTF-8@latin sr_yu.SJIS@devanagari -> sr_RS.sjis_devanagari sr@foobar -> sr@foobar sR@foObar -> sR@foObar sR -> sr_RS.UTF-8 mfabian@ari:~ $ I.e. “sr_RS.UTF-8@latin” is normalized to “sr_RS.utf_8_latin” which is clearly wrong and causes a fallback to sr_RS when using gettext which gives the cyrillic translations. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32551/mike-test.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19534> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com