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Here's a simpler, more precise test case (also attached):

import locale, time
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'de_DE')
date = u'September'; format = '%B'
time.strptime(date, format)

Here's the error I see:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "de_strptime_fail_simple.py", line 4, in ?
    time.strptime(date, format)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/_strptime.py", line 329, in strptime
    month = locale_time.f_month.index(found_dict['B'].lower())
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)