[Zope3-dev] testSplitterLocaleAwareness bombing out

[Guido van Rossum]

> Hi, sprinters,

Hi, Albertas!

> ERROR: testSplitterLocaleAwareness (Zope.TextIndex.tests.testLexicon.Test)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/users/alga/Zope3/lib/python/Zope/TextIndex/tests/testLexicon.py", line 125, in testSplitterLocaleAwareness
>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE.ISO8859-1')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/locale.py", line 372, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> Error: locale setting not supported
> 
> As a matter of fact, you cannot rely on any of the locales except
> "POSIX" and "C" to be available.  On Debian systems the administrator
> chooses what locales she wants compiled on her machine, and not
> surprisingly de_DE.ISO8859-1 is not compiled anywhere in our office.

Apologies.  I've checked in a fix now.

> Also, it would be nice to see docstrings and CVS $Id$ tags in all the
> files.

Yes.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)