bpo-41091: Remove recommendation in curses module documentation to initialize LC_ALL and encode strings #21159
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…itialize LC_ALL and encode strings The recommendation to call `locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')` is problematic as it initializes all locale categories to the user settings, which might be unintended and is not necessary for curses to work correctly. Initializing LC_CTYPE is sufficient for nl_langinfo() to return the correct encoding. Current versions of Python initialize LC_CTYPE at interpreter startup. Therefore calling locale.setlocale() should not be necessary at all. The curses module automatically encodes strings. Therefore the recommendation to manually encode strings is outdated.
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needs backport to 3.10
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This was removed in #91732. |
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The recommendation to call
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')isproblematic as it initializes all locale categories to the user
settings, which might be unintended and is not necessary for curses to
work correctly. Initializing LC_CTYPE is sufficient for nl_langinfo() to
return the correct encoding. Current versions of Python initialize
LC_CTYPE at interpreter startup. Therefore calling locale.setlocale()
should not be necessary at all.
The curses module automatically encodes strings. Therefore the
recommendation to manually encode strings is outdated.
https://bugs.python.org/issue41091