locale support and 4.10

[Timothy Smith]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Timothy Smith wrote:
>
>>  >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'us')
>> the exact same thing works under windows xp.
>> do i have to compile it with locale support?
>
>
> No. You have to choose a locale name that is supported by your
> operating system (which appears to be FreeBSD). Read your OS
> documentation for what valid locale names are; most likely,
> "en_US" or "en_US.ISO-8859-1" are supported.
>
>> also my second question. once i have this working how do i set the 
>> thousands_sep character to be a "," ?
>
>
> You don't directly set it. It is a property of the locale.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

something strange is happening, no matter what i try nothing is a 
supported locale
and yes it's freebsd 4.10