[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

[Simon Cross]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> The current locale is process-wide: if a thread changes the locale,
> all threads are affected. Some functions have to use the current
> locale encoding, and not the locale encoding read at startup. Examples
> with C functions: strerror(), strftime(), tzname, etc.

Could a core part of Python breaking because of a sequence like:

1) Encode unicode to bytes using locale codec.
2) Silly third-party library code changes the locale codec.
3) Attempt to decode bytes back to unicode using the locale codec
(which is now a different underlying codec).

?

Schiavo
Simon