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locale: setlocale(..., 'eo') sets non-existing locale #79344

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@carmenbianca
carmenbianca
mannequin
opened on Nov 4, 2018
BPO 35163
Nosy @malemburg, @carmenbianca
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  • bpo-35163: Change locale_alias for Esperanto #17901
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title = "locale: setlocale(..., 'eo') sets non-existing locale"
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    1. carmenbianca commented on Nov 4, 2018

      @carmenbianca
      carmenbiancamannequin
      on Nov 4, 2018
      MannequinAuthor

      See the following script:

      >>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'eo')
'eo'
>>> my_locale = locale.getlocale()
>>> my_locale
('eo_XX', 'ISO8859-3')
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, my_locale)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/locale.py", line 604, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

      'eo_XX.ISO8859-3' does not exist on Fedora 29 or Debian Stretch. The only Esperanto locales that exists are 'eo' and 'eo.utf8'. Even so, locale.py defines the Esperanto locales as follows:

      'eo':                                   'eo_XX.ISO8859-3',
'eo.utf8':                              'eo.UTF-8',
'eo_eo':                                'eo_EO.ISO8859-3',
'eo_us.utf8':                           'eo_US.UTF-8',
'eo_xx':                                'eo_XX.ISO8859-3',

      eo_EO used to exist on Debian in the early 2000s, and eo_XX on some other distributions. Since glibc 2.24 upstreamed Esperanto, however, it has been 'eo[.utf8]'.

      I'm not sure whether 'eo_eo', 'eo_us' and/or 'eo_xx' should be removed as keys, but 'eo' should have 'eo.UTF-8' as value.

    2. carmenbianca
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      3.7 (EOL)end of life
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      on Nov 4, 2018
    3. ezio-melotti
      transferred this issue fromon Apr 10, 2022
    4. serhiy-storchaka
      added this to Locale issues 🗺on May 21, 2022

    5. arhadthedev commented on Feb 13, 2023

      @arhadthedev
      arhadthedev
      on Feb 13, 2023
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      Esperanto locales were indeed fixed in gh-422 but then reverted in gh-713. According to gh-64286, this is because CPython uses X11 names from locale.alias instead of GLibc aliases and both alternatives lead to bugs.

    6. arhadthedev
      closed this as not plannedon Feb 13, 2023
    7. github-project-automation
      moved this to Done in Locale issues 🗺on Feb 13, 2023
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