Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 27.11.2015 23:11, STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor added the comment:
> 
> I don't see the benefit of supporting Unicode strings for setlocale() 
> arguments: locale name are always encodable to ASCII, so loc.decode('ascii') 
> is enough to workaround the issue.
> 
> But well, I think it's ok if it doesn't make the code much more complex ;-)
> 
> I wrote a patch, what do you think?

Thanks :-)

> Is it worth it? ;-)

I think so, since the current failure for Unicode is rather
obscure.

BTW: Why did you use (_str, _unicode) instead of basestring ?

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