[Python-Dev] logging module broken because of locale

[James Y Knight]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
>> To follow up on my own email: it looks like, even though in some  
>> locale
>> "INFO".lower() != "info"
>>
>> u"INFO".lower() == "info" (at least in the Turkish locale).
>>
>> Is that guaranteed, at least for now (for the current versions of  
>> python)?
>
> It's guaranteed for now; unicode.lower is not locale-aware.

That seems backwards of how it should be ideally: the byte-string  
upper and lower should always do ascii uppering-and-lowering, and the  
unicode ones should do it according to locale. Perhaps that can be  
cleaned up in py3k?

James