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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/locale.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/logging/handlers.py | 6 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst index 865969e..0d48892 100644 --- a/Doc/library/locale.rst +++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst @@ -454,11 +454,16 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions: .. data:: LC_CTYPE - .. index:: pair: module; string - - Locale category for the character type functions. Depending on the settings of - this category, the functions of module :mod:`string` dealing with case change - their behaviour. + Locale category for the character type functions. Most importantly, this + category defines the text encoding, i.e. how bytes are interpreted as + Unicode codepoints. See :pep:`538` and :pep:`540` for how this variable + might be automatically coerced to ``C.UTF-8`` to avoid issues created by + invalid settings in containers or incompatible settings passed over remote + SSH connections. + + Python doesn't internally use locale-dependent character transformation functions + from ``ctype.h``. Instead, an internal ``pyctype.h`` provides locale-independent + equivalents like :c:macro:`!Py_TOLOWER`. .. data:: LC_COLLATE diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py index e75da9b..9840b7b 100644 --- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py +++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py @@ -830,10 +830,8 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler): "local7": LOG_LOCAL7, } - #The map below appears to be trivially lowercasing the key. However, - #there's more to it than meets the eye - in some locales, lowercasing - #gives unexpected results. See SF #1524081: in the Turkish locale, - #"INFO".lower() != "info" + # Originally added to work around GH-43683. Unnecessary since GH-50043 but kept + # for backwards compatibility. priority_map = { "DEBUG" : "debug", "INFO" : "info", |