Issue 12699: strange behaviour of locale.getlocale() -> None, None (original) (raw)

Tested on linux arch & debian, freeBSD and MacOSX :

% python2.7 [...]

import locale locale.getlocale() (None, None) locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)  #or any type (None, None)

% python3.2 [...]

import locale locale.getlocale() ('fr_FR', 'UTF-8')

We feel this is strange!