On 7 December 2017 at 01:59, Jakub Wilk <jw...@jwilk.net> wrote: > * Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>, 2017-12-06, 16:15: >> The one that's relevant to default locale detection is just the string >> that "setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)" returns. > > POSIX doesn't require any particular return value for setlocale() calls. > It's only guaranteed that the returned string can be used in subsequent > setlocale() calls to restore the original locale. > > So in the POSIX locale, a compliant setlocale() implementation could return > "C", or "POSIX", or even something entirely different.
Thanks. I'd been wondering if we should also handle the "POSIX" case in the legacy locale detection logic, and you've convinced me that we should. Issue filed for that here: https://bugs.python.org/issue32238 Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
