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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Dec 19 00:21:24 CET 2010

On 12/18/2010 10:33 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:

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.

This is about the third mention of 'ICU' in the last few weeks, so I looked it up: International Components for Unicode http://site.icu-project.org/ Several libraries (C/C++,Java), including prebuilt binaries for Windows (and some others). There is already a Python .cpp wrapper (but no Windows binaries, which limits usefulness) http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU/1.0.1

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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