[Python-Dev] Re: gettext in the standard library (original) (raw)

James Henstridge james@daa.com.au
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:02:21 +0800 (WST)

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

James Henstridge wrote: > Well, it can do a little more than that. It will also handle the case of > a number of locales listed in the LANG environment variable. It also > doesn't look like it handles decomposition of a locale like > llCC.encoding@modifier into other matching encodings in the correct > precedence order. > > Maybe something to do this sort of decomposition would fit better in > locale.py though. > > This sort of thing is very useful for people who know more than one > language, and doesn't seem to be handled by plain setlocale()

I'm not sure I can follow you here: are you saying that your support in gettext.py does more or less than what's present in locale.py ? If it's more, I think it would be a good idea to add those parts to locale.py.

It does a little more than the current locale.py.

I just checked the current locale module, and it gives a ValueError exception when LANG is set to something like en_AU:fr_FR. This sort of thing should be handled by the python interface to gettext, as it is by the C implementation (and I am sure that most programmers would not expect such an error from the locale module).

The code in my gettext module handles that case.

James.

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