[Python-Dev] logging module broken because of locale

[Jim Jewett]

Mihai,

It does make sense to document this limit for people writing
subclasses, or using a Turkic codeset.  I'm not sure that logging is
the right place to document it, and I don't think changing the base
classes is a good idea.

TimedRotatingFileHandler and HTTPHandler restrict their input to a
tiny subset of ASCII; anything that would be handled differently after
these changes will already raise a ValueError unless you subclass.

Even SysLogHandler.emit doesn't actually print the string; it is only
used as a lookup key for a dictionary whose keys are all lower-case
ASCII.  In theory, you could monkey-patch that dictionary to add
additional values, but then you might as well subclass to do the right
thing with your new keys.  (It *might* make sense to change the base
function and dictionary to accept unicode, including undotted-i
synonyms.)

-jJ