Alexander Pyhalov added the comment: Honestly, I don't understand locale-related things good enough. But I received this explanation when discussed similar issue in illumos developers mailing list. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.illumos.devel/14193
2013/12/22 Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> > > Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > > The reason is that with UTF-8 locale islower()/isupper() and similar > > functions are not expected to work with non-ascii symbols. > > Can you explain why? > > ---------- > nosy: +pitrou > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue20049> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20049> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
