[issue30672] PEP 538: Unexpected locale behaviour on *BSD (including Mac OS X)

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

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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