locale on cygwin

[Andy Todd]

Andy Todd <andy47 at halfcooked.com> wrote in 
news:Xns91A1A678DEEE3andy47halfcookedcom at 203.109.250.24:

> Jason Tishler probably knows the answer to this off the top of his head,
> but ... 
> 
> I'm having problems getting 'locale' to work with Python under cygwin.
> 
> On my Win2k box with standard Python 2.1.1 my session looks like;

Ahhh, don't let your news client auto-format. The correct session is;

PythonWin 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 20 2001, 01:19:29) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32. Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (MarkH at ActiveState.com)
- see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information. 
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale() 
('en_AU', 'cp1252')
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'English_Australia.1252' 
>>>

> 
> But on the same machine with Cygwin python I get;

And this is really what happens;

Python 2.2 (#1, Dec 31 2001, 15:21:18)
[GCC 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale() 
(None, None)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') 
'C' 
>>>

> I presume this means that the _locale module is not present on Cygwin, or
> compiled in with Python. Is there any particular reason why? 
> 
> I've searched the archives of this newsgroup and the Cygwin mailing list
> and I'm fairly sure this hasn't come up before. If this is a duplicate
> then please accept my apologies in advance. 
> 
> Regards,
> Andy

Sorry about that.

Andy
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