[ python-Bugs-1223976 ] error locale.getlocale() with LANGUAGE=eu_ES

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Bugs item #1223976, was opened at 2005-06-20 11:40
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Zunbeltz Izaola (zunbeltz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: error locale.getlocale() with LANGUAGE=eu_ES

Initial Comment:
I had sumited this bug (id 1177674) and it has been
closed becouse my bad explanation. 

My locale is set to LANGUAGE=eu_ES

This is what i get in the interpreter

Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'eu_ES'
>>>
>>> locale.getlocale()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 365, in
getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 278, in
_parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: eu_ES
>>>


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Comment By: Nikos Kouremenos (nkour)
Date: 2005-11-13 23:30

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this bug is REAL and major IMO

any app that uses localization cannot be runned by a basque

python is not aware of eu_ES at all!

I don't know if this solves it (I'm not basque)

--- /usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py        2005-11-12
11:59:16.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/locale.py      2005-11-13 23:27:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@
         'ar_aa':                         'ar_AA.ISO8859-6',
         'ar_sa':                         'ar_SA.ISO8859-6',
         'arabic':                        'ar_AA.ISO8859-6',
+        'basque':                        'eu_ES.ISO8859-1',
         'bg':                            'bg_BG.ISO8859-5',
         'bg_bg':                         'bg_BG.ISO8859-5',
         'bulgarian':                     'bg_BG.ISO8859-5',
@@ -540,6 +541,7 @@
         'es_ve':                         'es_VE.ISO8859-1',
         'et':                            'et_EE.ISO8859-4',
         'et_ee':                         'et_EE.ISO8859-4',
+        'eu_ES':                         'eu_ES.ISO8859-1',
         'fi':                            'fi_FI.ISO8859-1',
         'fi_fi':                         'fi_FI.ISO8859-1',
         'finnish':                       'fi_FI.ISO8859-1',


btw for this not to happen again (sad to see py242 not
fixing this) http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~pesca/locales.html

Zunbeltz Izaola is a courageous man, and please loweis think
a bit more before replying why do you need that and this

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-07-06 08:28

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What do you need locale.getlocale() for? If it is to
determine the encoding, I recommend to use
locale.getpreferredencoding() instead.

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