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Author	vstinner
Recipients	eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date	2020年02月10日.23:16:23
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Message-id	<1581376583.8.0.484632681283.issue38324@roundup.psfhosted.org>

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>>> loc=locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) >>> loc ('tr_TR', 'ISO8859-9') getlocale() has issues on Unix, but worse issues on Windows. See: * bpo-12726 * bpo-20087 * bpo-20088 * bpo-23425 * bpo-33934 * bpo-38805 I never use getlocale() and I never understood the purpose of this function. I use locale.setlocale(loc) (same than locale.setlocale(loc, None)) to get a locale: the result can be passed to locale.setlocale(loc, result) with no problem.

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>>> loc=locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) 
>>> loc
('tr_TR', 'ISO8859-9')
getlocale() has issues on Unix, but worse issues on Windows. See:
* bpo-12726
* bpo-20087
* bpo-20088
* bpo-23425
* bpo-33934
* bpo-38805
I never use getlocale() and I never understood the purpose of this function. I use locale.setlocale(loc) (same than locale.setlocale(loc, None)) to *get* a locale: the result can be passed to locale.setlocale(loc, result) with no problem.

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