[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

[Simon Cross]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I don't understand what do you mean by "weird things". The
> "locale" codec doesn't touch the locale.

Sorry for being unclear. My question was about the following lines
from http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html#locale.getpreferredencoding:

"""On some systems, it is necessary to invoke setlocale() to obtain
the user preferences, so this function is not thread-safe. If invoking
setlocale is not necessary or desired, do_setlocale should be set to
False."""

So my question was about what happens on such systems where invoking
setlocale is necessary to obtain the user preferences?

Schiavo
Simon