[issue12752] locale.normalize does not take unicode strings

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Julian Taylor wrote:
> 
> New submission from Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:
> 
> using unicode strings for locale.normalize gives following traceback with python2.7:
> 
> ~$ python2.7 -c 'import locale; locale.normalize(u"en_US")'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 358, in normalize
>     fullname = localename.translate(_ascii_lower_map)
> TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode
> 
> with python2.6 it works and it also works with non-unicode strings in 2.7

This looks like a side-effect of the change Antoine made to the locale
module when trying to make the case mapping work in a non-locale
dependent way.

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nosy: +lemburg

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