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Author lemburg
Recipients benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, firatozgul, lemburg, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2013-02-20.15:13:47
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On 20.02.2013 15:58, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
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> Benjamin Peterson added the comment:
> 
> The "locale" module does not affect Unicode operations. That's C locale; I'm talking about concept of Unicode locale, which Python doesn't currently know anything about.
> 
> I agree it would be useful to customize the locale of various unicode operations. That's a much broader language-level issue, though, in need of careful design.

We'd need to add the CLDR for locale aware operations and a Python
interface for it:

http://cldr.unicode.org/

The Babel project provides such an interface:

http://babel.edgewall.org/

The project appears to have stalled, though.
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