unknown locale de_DE at euro

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shalehperry at attbi.com
Fri May 10 16:09:40 EDT 2002


On 10-May-2002 vincent wehren wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The locale de_DE at euro  (which I uses ISO-8859-15 as encoding), as used by
> e.g. SuSe 8.0 Linux,is not (yet) regognized by the locale module of
> Python2.2. A ValueError is raised when calling the module's
> "getdefaultlocale()" method. How can one go about handling this? Should one
> add it to the encoding aliases in locale.py? Any suggestions?
> 

normalize() in locale.py should likely be updated to handle '@'.  As should
_parse_localename().

If a bug is not already out for this, there should be one.





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