[Python-Dev] Small issues in gettext support

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> > opportunity for getting lots of UnicodeErrors?  E.g. my system encoding
> > is 'ascii' so gettext() would fail for catalogs containing non-ascii
> > characters.  I shouldn't have to change my system encoding just to avoid
> > errors, but with your suggestion, wouldn't that make many catalogs
> > basically unusable for me?

Another interesting point, from the gettext documentation:

"""
The output character set is, by default, the value of `nl_langinfo
(CODESET)', which depends on the `LC_CTYPE' part of the current locale.
But programs which store strings in a locale independent way (e.g.
UTF-8) can request that `gettext' and related functions return the
translation in that encoding, by use of the `bind_textdomain_codeset'
function.
"""

So, we should use some variant of locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) to
get the default encoding. Since this should be changed together with
the language used when 'setlocale' is issued, the UnicodeError problems
you're afraid of would also go away.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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