ajung@localhost:~/sandboxes/Zope/Zope: locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
ajung@localhost:~/sandboxes/Zope/Zope: python2.3
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Nov  6 2004, 11:45:40)
[GCC 3.4.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
'UTF-8'
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
['fr_FR', 'utf']
>>>

As you can see the encoding is set to 'UTF-8' but
getdefaultlocale()
returns only 'utf'. If I set LC_CTYPE e.g. to
'fr_FR.iso-8859-10 then the
right encoding is returned.

Affected: Python 2.3.4, 2.4b1
OS: Linux i386 Fedora Core 2

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In Python, 'utf' is an alias for 'utf-8'. With that
knowledge, is this still a problem?

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hmmm...what about utf16, utf32?

-aj

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Well, I don't know how to test them (are there any utf16 or
utf32 locales), but I assume that those would return
'utf16'/'utf32' or one of their aliases.

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All listings of standard encodings are here:
  http://docs.python.org/lib/node127.html (Py 2.3)
  http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/standard-
encodings.html (Py 2.4)

> what about utf16, utf32?
U16 and utf16 is an alias for utf-16, but it looks like utf-32 is 
not supported yet.

Back to the original post, as Johannes said earlier, utf is an 
alias for utf-8, so locale.getdefaultlocale() returns *right* 
encoding.

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utf32 is supported: try doing 'import codecs;
codecs.lookup('utf32'). Closing this as there doesn't seem
to be a bug here.