New submission from Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@googlemail.com>:
This bug may be based on same problem as Issue 6203. - My system locale is en_GB.UTF-8. - Given a latin1 text file, open()+ will fail with 'UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6...' - Using locale.setlocale(..., ...) - Re-open causes same error, I/O layer codec has not been changed! - Using os.environ["LC_ALL"] = ... - Re-open works properly, I/O layer codec has been changed. P.S.: i am new to Python, please don't assume i can help in solving the problem! ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 127177 nosy: sdaoden priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec, os.environ[] does versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11022> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
