Locale settings

[Martin v. Löwis]

bvdpoel at kootenay.com (Bob van der Poel) writes:

> The funny think about all this is that my user didn't have any
> problems when he was using Mandrake Linux 9.0. Just the upgrade to 9.1
> which caused the problem. Which is why I was thinking that he'd not
> set the locale stuff up properly at his end.

This might well be the problem. However, it might also be that the
system treats "de" as an alias to, say, de_DE.ISO-8859-15. The C
library would know about this, but Python's getdefaultlocale can't
possibly know.

Regards,
Martin