[issue6203] 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation and to 2.x behavior

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

This is definately a bug in 3.1, for the same reason that a C program
uses the C locale until an explicit setlocale is done: otherwise, a
non-locale-aware program can run into bugs resulting from locale issues
when run under a different locale than that of the program author.

I have a memory of this being reported before somewhere and someone
tracking it down to a change in python initialization, but I can't find
a bug report and my google-foo is failing me.

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nosy: +r.david.murray
priority: normal -> release blocker
stage:  -> needs patch

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