all Python 3localefunction

locale.normalize()

locale setup

Turns a locale name into the form setlocale() understands, filling in region and encoding from a built-in alias table.

Syntax

locale.normalize(localename)

It is a pure lookup in Python's table, not a question to the system: the result does not guarantee the locale is installed, and setlocale() may still raise locale.Error. The encoding comes from the table, not UTF-8: 'en_US' becomes 'en_US.ISO8859-1'. An unknown name is returned unchanged, with no error.

Examples

import locale
print(locale.normalize('ru_RU.utf8'))  # → ru_RU.UTF-8
print(locale.normalize('en_US'))  # → en_US.ISO8859-1 — не UTF-8!
print(locale.normalize('xx'))  # → xx — без ошибки

locale.normalize()

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