[issue19846] Setting LANG=C breaks Python 3 on Linux
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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Mon Dec 9 11:30:12 CET 2013
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
On 09.12.2013 11:19, STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
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> Marc-Andre> AFAIK, Python 3 does work with ASCII data in the C locale, so I'm not sure whether this is a bug at all.
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> What do you mean? Python uses the surrogateescape encoding since Python 3.1, undecodable bytes are stored as surrogate characters.
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> Many bugs related to locales were fixed in Python 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.
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> There are remaining bugs?
I was referring to the original bug report on this ticket.
FWIW: I don't think you can expect Python to work without exceptions
if you use a C locale and write non-ASCII data to stdout. I also
don't think that the new ticket title is correct - or at least,
I fail to see which aspect of Python breaks with LANG=C :-)
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