[Python-Dev] logging module broken because of locale (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jul 18 21:32:39 CEST 2006


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

The Unicode database OTOH defines the upper/lower case mapping in a locale independent way, so the mappings are guaranteed to always produce the same results on all platforms.

Actually, that isn't the full truth; see UAX#21, which is now official part of Unicode 4. It specifies two kinds of case conversion: simple case conversion, and full case conversion. Python only supports simple case conversion at the moment. Full case conversion is context (locale) dependent, and must take into account SpecialCasing.txt.

Regards, Martin



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