Message 307784 - Python tracker

Message307784

Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	ncoghlan, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2017-12-07.00:45:21
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As discussed in https://bugs.python.org/issue32238 and https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/151105.html, I now think the right answer for the POSIX case is to ensure the legacy locale detection logic always treats that the same way as it does the C locale. LANG=UTF-8 I'm still not sure about - as I understand it, that's a partial locale that only defines LC_CTYPE, which may be why the libc implementation ignores it if you try to set it as a general category default.

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As discussed in https://bugs.python.org/issue32238 and https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/151105.html, I now think the right answer for the POSIX case is to ensure the legacy locale detection logic always treats that the same way as it does the C locale.

LANG=UTF-8 I'm still not sure about - as I understand it, that's a partial locale that only defines LC_CTYPE, which may be why the libc implementation ignores it if you try to set it as a general category default.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-12-07 00:45:21	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, ronaldoussoren, vstinner, ned.deily
2017-12-07 00:45:21	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1512607521.91.0.213398074469.issue30672@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2017-12-07 00:45:21	ncoghlan	create