[Tutor] Question about language code

[eryksun]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Dae James <daedae11 at 126.com> wrote:
>
>>>> import locale
>>>> loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale
> # use German locale; name might vary with platform
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')

This depends on the C runtime. For Windows, see MSDN:

setlocale
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d
Language strings
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf
Country/Region strings
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdax410z
Code pages
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195051

For example (untested):

    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'German_Germany.1252')


>From the MSDN setlocale() docs:

The "locale" argument can be formatted as follows:

setlocale( LC_ALL, "" );
Sets the locale to the default, which is the user-default ANSI code
page obtained from the operating system.

setlocale( LC_ALL, ".OCP" );
Explicitly sets the locale to the current OEM code page obtained from
the operating system.

setlocale( LC_ALL, ".ACP" );
Sets the locale to the ANSI code page obtained from the operating system.

setlocale( LC_ALL, "[lang_ctry]" );
Sets the locale to the language and country/region indicated, using
the default code page obtained from the host operating system.

setlocale( LC_ALL, "[lang_ctry.cp]" );
Sets the locale to the language, country/region, and code page
indicated in the [lang_ctry.cp] string. You can use various
combinations of language, country/region, and code page.

For example:

    setlocale( LC_ALL, "French_Canada.1252" );

    // Set code page to French Canada ANSI default
    setlocale( LC_ALL, "French_Canada.ACP" );

    // Set code page to French Canada OEM default
    setlocale( LC_ALL, "French_Canada.OCP" );