> Python doesn't like the above: > > #locale.Error: unsupported locale setting > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('FR', 'UTF-8')) > > Maybe it was introduced in more recent versions of Python? Hmm, that's odd. According to the docs (http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html#locale.setlocale) it's been that way since 2.0, but I've just checked this on my Windows (Vista) machine and you're right, it returns an error.
This worked for me on 32-bit Vista: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'FR') It uses Windows-1252 for the encoding, but that seems to deal with the circonflexe in 'Août' just fine, so it should work for this purpose. ---- Rami Chowdhury "Never attributed to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor 408-597-7068 (US) / 07875-841-046 (UK) / 0189-245544 (BD) On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:19:53 Gilles Ganault wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:11:20 -0700, Rami Chowdhury > > <rami.chowdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Could you let me know which platform this is on (Windows, *nix)? It may be > > a locale encoding issue -- the locale.setlocale() function allows the > > second argument to be a tuple of (locale_code, encoding), as below: > > > >locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('FR', 'UTF-8')) > > It's on XP, and I'm using ActivePython 2.5.1.1. > http://www.activestate.com/activepython/ > > Python doesn't like the above: > > #locale.Error: unsupported locale setting > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('FR', 'UTF-8')) > > Maybe it was introduced in more recent versions of Python? > > >Since this is for a one-shot (and presumably threading-agnostic) program, > > and a fairly trivially formatted date-string, I would suggest using > >datetime.strptime > >(http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime) > > and not regular expressions (which IIRC have Issues with non-ASCII > > characters). > > If the regex library can only handle basic latin characters, I'll wait > until a script I'm running is done, and I'll upgrade to the 2.6.2.2 to > see how it goes. > > Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list