[python-win32] Localization

[Roger Upole]

Take a look at the locale module, in particular
locale.setlocale.

         Roger

"Bokverket" <bokverket at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, new to the list and to Python but enthusiastically on the move into 
> both...
>
> I am from the world outside A-Za-z country. I wrote a simple text 
> processing application in Python which I eventually would like to
> integrate with Microsoft Word. Right away, the following localization 
> problems popped up:
>
> -- Sorting is done incorrectly for non-a-z letters.
> -- Using \W for whitespace in a regular expression makes it treat those 
> non-a-z letters as whitespace, thus breaking words that
> should not be broken.
> -- Not yet sure if folding to lower-case is done correctly.
>
> How should I handle this in Python?   I post on this list, since Windows 
> by itself has good support for localization (altering the
> sorting sequence etc) as you know, though I am not familiar with the 
> Windows calls for this.
> Best,