Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > > Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: > > R. David Murray wrote: >> >> R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: >> >> I had a report from a user on IRC during the bug weekend that they could not >> reproduce the failure on windows. So it may be dependent on the windows >> version. That doesn't answer your question of why it hasn't come up before, >> though, since my tests were done on XP. > > Some research shows that the MS VCRT uses non-ISO locale names > for setlocale(): > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hzz3tw78.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdax410z.aspx > > and it doesn't support the ISO style locale namings, even though > the setlocale() page says "The set of available languages, country/region > codes, and code pages > includes all those supported by the Win32 NLS API" and the Win32 > API does support the ISO names: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd373814(VS.85).aspx > > I'll have to check whether Vista also shows this behavior. On > Win XP the setlocale() API doesn't accept ISO language names; > I can confirm that. It only accepts the fully written out > form described on the above pages.
Confirmed on Vista as well. I think the only choice we have is to add a new alias dictionary mapping the ISO language names to the Windows ones. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10466> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
