[New-bugs-announce] [issue25742] locale.setlocale does not work with unicode strings

[tierlieb]

New submission from tierlieb:

Within locale.py in setlocale your have this piece of code:

    if locale and type(locale) is not type(""):
        # convert to string
        locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))

That does not work with unicode strings as I found out after wondering quite a bit about the difference was between my tests and my production code...

So either expand the check here to include type(u"") or make _build_localename smarter.

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components: Unicode
messages: 255461
nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, tierlieb
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: locale.setlocale does not work with unicode strings
versions: Python 2.7

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