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Title: locale.getdefaultencoding: precedence of LANGUAGE / LANG
Type: Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.4
process
Status: closed Resolution: accepted
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: doko, georg.brandl
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2005-03-20 13:11 by doko, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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locale2.diff doko, 2005-03-20 13:11
Messages (3)
msg48010 - (view) Author: Matthias Klose (doko) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-03-20 13:11 
locale.getdefaultencoding checks first LANGUAGE, then
the LC_* and LANG variables. Assume LANGUAGE is set to
en:de, and LANG to en_US.utf-8, then getdefaultencoding
returns the wrong encoding (ISO8859-1).

AFAIK, LANGUAGE is specific to gettext (GNU extension),
and IMO should not interfer with getting the correct
encoding.

This patch uses LANGUAGE as the choice with the lowest
priority, so the other variables to determine the
locale and encoding take precedence (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE,
LANG).

There's another (minor) bug in the implementation:
LANGUAGE is honoured even if the default locale is "C".
msg48011 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-06-01 17:04 
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This file is one big patch for #1166938, #1166948 and #1166957.
msg48012 - (view) Author: Matthias Klose (doko) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-09-20 07:06 
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checked in as
  Lib/locale.py: 1.32 (HEAD)
  Lib/locale.py: 1.28.4.2 (2.4 branch)
History
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2022-04-11 14:56:10adminsetgithub: 41726
2005-03-20 13:11:25dokocreate