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# Copyright (C) 2006 by Intevation GmbH
# Author(s):
# Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
#
# This program is free software under the GPL (>=v2)
# Read the file COPYING coming with the software for details.
"""Support code for setting locales."""
__version__ = "$Revision: $"
# $Id: xmlsupport.py 1683 2003-08-28 15:20:57Z bh $
import locale
from locale import LC_NUMERIC, setlocale, localeconv
_verbose = 0
def setdecimalcommalocale():
"""Find and set LC_NUMERIC locale that uses comma as decimal_point.
Return the previous locale to be able to set the previous LC_NUMERIC.
This can be "(None, None)" or None if none was found.
"""
# German_Germany.1252 discovered by Bernhard Reiter 200703 Windows XP
encodings = [".UTF-8", "@euro", ".1252"]
locales = ["de_DE", "fr_FR", "fr_BE", "German_Germany"]
# using setlocale, because output of getlocale might not work
# with setlocale, which is a python problem up to at least 2.5
oldlocale = setlocale(LC_NUMERIC)
tries = []
for l in locales:
for e in encodings:
tries.append(l + e)
for t in tries:
try:
if _verbose > 0:
print "trying", repr(t)
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, t)
except locale.Error:
continue
break
# did we find one?
if localeconv()['decimal_point'] == ",":
return oldlocale
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, oldlocale)
return None
if __name__ == "__main__":
# test and print result
print "Searching for LC_NUMERIC locale with comma as decimal_point ..."
_verbose = 1
oldlocale = setdecimalcommalocale()
if oldlocale == None:
print "none found."
else:
print "found: ",
print setlocale(LC_NUMERIC)
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, oldlocale)
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