Locale bug?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?=" <Trond.Endrestol at ximalas.info>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>>     $ python3
>>     >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
>>     >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
>>     'ti, 03 tammi\xa0 2012 14:51:57 +0200 (EET)'
>
> It may be OS-specific.

You're right. It's a generic linux problem (in the coreutils rpm of
Fedora). An analogous C program demonstrates the same issue.

> Your sample code runs fine on FreeBSD/i386

>     trond at enterprise:~>python3.2
>     >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
>     >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
>     'Ti, 03 Tam 2012 15:03:15 +0100 (CET)'

Well, "Ti" and "Tam" probably shouldn't be capitalized...


Marko