[Linux-SIG] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to C.UTF-8

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Tue Jan 3 11:16:02 EST 2017


> On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I find this confusing on several fronts.  I think it might be better to say
> "Embedded Python" rather than "Py_Initialize" since end users who are using an
> application with Python embedded probably will have no idea what
> "Py_Initialize" is, and they are the ones who will see this warning first.



Embedded Python is wrong since this warning is going to get hit by non-embedded cases too, for instance the default ubuntu docker container where I regularly have to set LC_TYPE=C.UTF-8 when using click.

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Donald Stufft



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