unknown locale de_DE at euro

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 12-May-2002 Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> writes:
> 
>> Sorry, I misunderstood what the subject of your "why" was.
> 
>> It still stands however that the locale.py needs updates to handle @
>> specified locales.  Like them or not, they are here to stay.
> 
> Well, I do like the @euro thing in locale names. I don't like
> getdefaultlocale, so I'd rather convert people away from using it
> instead of fixing it.
> 

that is fair.  However locale.normalize() is where the problem is actually
occuring.  It handles the foo.enc style but not foo at enc style.

Or should normalize() be killed of as cruft too?  Just curious as a boring
English speaker.