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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients lemburg, loewis, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2013-12-20.14:55:29
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Message-id <1387551329.95.0.75949233797.issue20027@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Ubuntu 12.04 supports Kashmiri and Sindhi locales (requires language-pack-sd-base and language-pack-sd-base packages).

$ locale -a
...
ks_IN
ks_IN@devanagari
ks_IN.utf8
ks_IN.utf8@devanagari
...
sd_IN
sd_IN@devanagari
sd_IN.utf8
sd_IN.utf8@devanagari
...

Current Python doesn't support all of these locales:

$ LC_ALL=ks_IN ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 556, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 465, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: ks_IN
$ LC_ALL=ks_IN@devanagari ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 556, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 465, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: ks_IN@devanagari
$ LC_ALL=ks_IN.utf8 ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
('ks_IN', 'utf8')
$ LC_ALL=ks_IN.utf8@devanagari ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
('ks_IN', 'UTF-8')
$ LC_ALL=sd_IN ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 556, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 465, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: sd_IN
$ LC_ALL=sd_IN@devanagari ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 556, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 465, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: sd_IN@devanagari
$ LC_ALL=sd_IN.utf8 ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
('sd_IN', 'utf8')
$ LC_ALL=sd_IN.utf8@devanagari ./python -c 'import locale; print(locale.getlocale())'
('sd_IN', 'utf8')

After applying the patch Python supports all ks_IN and sd_IN locales.
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Date User Action Args
2013-12-20 14:55:29serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, lemburg, loewis
2013-12-20 14:55:29serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1387551329.95.0.75949233797.issue20027@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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