using locales

[vincent wehren]

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| Is there some sort of tutorial on locales or the locale module?
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| I can't seem to find a list showing all possible locales. I made 'en'
| work alright, but when I tried 'de' or 'de_DE' or 'es_ES', etc. it said
| that those were not valid locaes. Worst of all, when I tried 'es' it
| said that this was estonian?! Obviously, this is not what ISO 639 says.
| 'es' should be Spanish, and Estonian should be 'et.

What makes you think that the underlying C-runtime library cares about
ISO639? If you're on Windows (which from what you've written I assume you 
are), you might want to look at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_language_strings.asp

(Unfortunately, I know for a fact that this list is *not* exhaustive, at 
least not for WIN2K or XP.)

In addition, you might want to keep in mind - and again this applies to the 
Windows platform - that what is returned by locale.getdefaultlocale is not 
suitable as input for the the country/language argument of locale.setlocale 
(which is somewhat of a pitty, cause I sometimes wish I could do something 
like "locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 
".".join(locale.getdefaultlocale())" ).

However, if you really need super-deluxe localization/national language 
support independent of the C runtime on Windows you may need to wrap the 
appropriate functions living in winnls.h (or the version of winnls.h 
contained in the platform SDK) - some of which may have already found there 
way into the Python for Win32 Extensions (GetDateFormat for example).


Regards,

--

Vincent Wehren

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| Anyway, I'd love to have a method called get_available_locales to tell
| me what I can use on my machine, or something like that.
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| Can anyone tell me how I *do* get these names?
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| Thanks
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