[Python-Dev] Locale-specific formatting (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Sat Dec 18 16:33:31 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:08:47AM +0000, MRAB wrote:

This makes it harder to use more than one locale at a time

This is quite a known problem, not specific to Python. Locale settings are global for a process, and this is one of the thousands reasons why locale is considered so horrible. ICU is perhaps the only way around the problem.

Oleg.

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