unknown locale de_DE at euro

[vincent wehren]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> "vincent wehren" <v.wehren at home.nl> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> I recommend to either ignore or fix locale.getdefaultlocale; as is, it
> is utterly broken.
> 
> Why do you need it? If you want to obtain the locale's charset, use
> locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) (after performing setlocale).
> 
> HTH,
> Martin

Since I started off using Python on a win32 environment, locale_langinfo() 
had never been an option; true, on linux this'll work; Ofcourse, on Windows 
it won't. (ofcourse, de_DE at euro will hardly pop up on a Windows machine)

Still, to be able to use one method on both OS's, wouldn't it be ok to add 
something likr

elif '@' in code:
    return code.split('@').[0]

to _parse_localename() or  add 'de_de at euro': 'de_DE.ISO-8859-15' to 
locale_alias engine in locale.py....?




Regards 

Vincent Wehren