[Python-Dev] Re: gettext in the standard library

[James Henstridge]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> James Henstridge wrote:
> > Well, it can do a little more than that.  It will also handle the case of
> > a number of locales listed in the LANG environment variable.  It also
> > doesn't look like it handles decomposition of a locale like
> > ll_CC.encoding@modifier into other matching encodings in the correct
> > precedence order.
> > 
> > Maybe something to do this sort of decomposition would fit better in
> > locale.py though.
> > 
> > This sort of thing is very useful for people who know more than one
> > language, and doesn't seem to be handled by plain setlocale()
> 
> I'm not sure I can follow you here: are you saying that your
> support in gettext.py does more or less than what's present
> in locale.py ?
> 
> If it's more, I think it would be a good idea to add those
> parts to locale.py.

It does a little more than the current locale.py.

I just checked the current locale module, and it gives a ValueError
exception when LANG is set to something like en_AU:fr_FR.  This sort of
thing should be handled by the python interface to gettext, as it is by
the C implementation (and I am sure that most programmers would not expect
such an error from the locale module).

The code in my gettext module handles that case.

James.

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