setlocale (Was: Re: [PATCH] patchbomb: fix From_ in the message's envelope)

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 23:56 +0200, Cedric Duval wrote:
> So... on the course of implementing this locale test, some weird
> behaviors led to an interesting discovery. :) Nowhere do we have
> the idiomatic
> 
>   locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> 
> for setting up the locales according to the user's environment.
> 
> It would allow users to take advantage of, for instance, dates displayed
> in a way they are used to (e.g. in 'hg log'), etc.
> 
> It also means that we'd have to be more careful where locales may affect
> results, and that the current code may have wrong assumptions that will
> have to be fixed, but in the long run I think this is worth doing.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm not very keen on that. We're likely to hit some unpleasant surprises
like changes in collation order or the like.

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