[New-bugs-announce] [issue12752] locale.normalize does not take unicode strings

[Julian Taylor]

New submission from Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:

using unicode strings for locale.normalize gives following traceback with python2.7:

~$ python2.7 -c 'import locale; locale.normalize(u"en_US")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 358, in normalize
    fullname = localename.translate(_ascii_lower_map)
TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

with python2.6 it works and it also works with non-unicode strings in 2.7

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components: Unicode
messages: 142118
nosy: jtaylor
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: locale.normalize does not take unicode strings
versions: Python 2.7

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