[Tutor] is set/getlocale buggy in OS X?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

I got several unexpected results using locale.getlocale under OS X. On one computer (not mine) it returned (None, None), even though I used setlocale. Now I am getting the result below on my own computer. Is there a good workaround for this? 

Albert-Jans-Mac-Pro:macos albertjan$ uname -a
Darwin Albert-Jans-Mac-Pro.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Albert-Jans-Mac-Pro:macos albertjan$ python

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 20 2012, 16:23:33) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
'C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C'
>>> locale.getlocale()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 515, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 428, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 



Thank you!


Regards,

Albert-Jan




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