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[Kev Dwyer]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 4/28/2014 2:33 AM, Kev Dwyer wrote:
> 
>> Hello Terry,
>>
>> Regarding your second point, my mistake in not checking the link:
>> I'd seen a similar one elsewhere and assumed they were the same.
>>
>> This link should work:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hzz3tw78
>>
>>
>> As to your first point, you're right, it seems setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,
>> 'en_US.UTF-8') doesn't work on Windows.
> 
>  From what I read of the link above and
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/goglobal/bb896001.aspx
> given therein, I am going to guess that .UTF-8 is not supported for any
> language.
> 
>> It seems the locale name needs to be one of the aliases provided
>> at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf, so for example
>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'usa') returns
>> 'English_United States.1252'.
>>
>> Do you know if this is something people programming on Windows
>> should just be aware of, or is there a case for a hint of some
>> kind in the locale module documentation?
> 
> *Definitely the latter. Perhaps you could open an issue with a specific
> suggestion.
> 

Thanks! I'll try to write something up this weekend.