[issue18378] locale.getdefaultlocale() fails on Mac OS X with default language set to English

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

FWIW, I couldn't find any use of getdefaultlocale in any of the hg revisions (using hg grep) in

https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/

Instead, it's (probably) docutils, which has this code:

    locale_encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] or locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
    # locale.getpreferredencoding([do_setlocale=True|False])
    # has side-effects | might return a wrong guess.
    # (cf. Update 1 in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4082645/using-python-2-xs-locale-module-to-format-numbers-and-currency)

I find that quite unfortunate, since locale.getpreferredencoding() would have don the right thing (IMO).

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