Hi, Skip Montanaro:
Tim> Nevermind; checked in a hack to stop the error on Windows.
Probably should file a bug report (if you haven't already) so the root problem isn't forgotten because the hack obscures it. I see this code in localemodule.c:
#ifdef LC_MESSAGES x = PyInt_FromLong(LC_MESSAGES); PyDict_SetItemString(d, "LC_MESSAGES", x); Py_XDECREF(x); #endif /* LC_MESSAGES */
Martin, looks like this module is your baby. Care to hazard a guess about whether LC_MESSAGES should always or never be there?
AFAI found out, LC_MESSAGES was added to the POSIX "standard" in Posix.2. Non-posix2 compatible systems probably miss the proper functionality behind 'setlocale()'. So the best solution would be to add a clever emulation/approximation of this feature, if the underlying platform (here windows) doesn't provide it. This would require to wrap 'setlocale()'. But I'm not sure how to emulate for example 'setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, 'DE_de') on a Windows box. May be it is impossible to achieve. What I would love to see is that the typical query 'setlocale(LC_MESSAGES)' would return 'DE_de' on a Box running for example the german version of Windows or MacOS. This would eliminate the need for ugly language selection menus on these platforms in a portable fashion. Regards, Peter