[New-bugs-announce] [issue6525] Problem with string.lowercase in Windows XP

[Peter Landgren]

New submission from Peter Landgren <peter.talken at telia.com>:

string.lowercase is changed after locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') in
Windows XP but not in Linux.
This little test script on Windows XP and Linux explains the problem:

import locale
import string
print string.lowercase
print locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'C')
print string.lowercase
print locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')
print string.lowercase

Result on Win XP with Python 2.5.1:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
C
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Swedish_Sweden.1252
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzâܣ׬Á║▀ÓßÔÒõÕµþÞÚÛÙýݯ´­±‗¾¶§÷°¨·¹³²■

Result on Linux with Python 2.5.2:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
C
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
sv_SE.UTF-8
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 90733
nosy: PeterL
severity: normal
status: open
title: Problem with string.lowercase in Windows XP
type: crash
versions: Python 2.5

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