sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Maas wrote:

>> To summarize the discussion: either it's a bug in glibc or there is an
>> option to specify modern POSIX locale. POSIX locale consist of
>> characters from the portable character set, unicode is certainly
>> portable.
>
> What about the environment variable LANG? I have SuSE 9.1 and
> LANG = de_DE.UTF-8. Your example is running well on my computer.

Python's Unicode subsystem shouldn't depend on the system's LANG
setting.

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