On 17.02.2021 15:02, Anders Munch wrote: >> BTW: What is wxWidgets doing with the returned values ? > > wxWidgets doesn't call getlocale, it's a C++ library (wrapped by wxPython) > that uses C setlocale. > > What does use getlocale is time.strptime and datetime.datetime.strptime, so > when getlocale fails, strptime fails.
Would they work with getlocale() returning None for the encoding ? >> We could enhance this to return None for the encoding instead >> of raising an exception, but would this really help ? > > Very much so. > > Frankly, I don't get the impression that the current locale preferred > encoding is used for *anything*. Other than possibly having a role in > implementing getpreferredencoding. The logic for getdefaultencoding() predates getpreferredencoding(). I had added it because calling setlocale() just to figure out the default encoding and then resetting it to the original setting is dangerous in a multi-threaded application such as a web server -- setlocale() changes the locale for the entire process. >> Alternatively, we could add "en_DE" to the alias table and set >> a default encoding to use. > > Where would you get a complete list of all the new aliases that would need be > to be added? We could start with the list of supported locales in Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/locale-names-languages-and-country-region-strings?view=msvc-160 Since everything is moving toward UTF-8 as standard encoding, I'd suggest use alias the plain locale codes to <locale>.UTF-8. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
