[issue20087] Mismatch between glibc and X11 locale.alias
Benjamin Peterson
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Mar 10 02:37:04 EST 2017
Benjamin Peterson added the comment:
Do you believe this program should work?
import locale, os
for l in open("/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED"):
alias, encoding = l.strip().split()
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, alias)
try:
enc = locale.getlocale()[1]
except ValueError:
continue # not in table
normalized = enc.replace("ISO", "ISO-"). \
replace("_", "-"). \
replace("euc", "EUC-"). \
replace("big5", "big5-").upper()
assert normalized == locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
After my change it does—the encoding returned from getlocale() is the one actually being used by glibc. It fails dramatically on earlier versions of Python (for example on the en_IN example from #29571.) I don't understand why Python needs to editorialize whatever choices libc or the system administrator has made.
Is getlocale() expected to return something different from the underlying C locale?
In fact, why have this table at all instead of using nl_langinfo to return the encoding for the current locale?
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