locale and Qt

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Hi,

when I set the locale to a value (let's say 'en_US.UTF-8' different
back to 'fr_FR.UTF-8' after the first figure is created when the
backend is dervied from Qt (no problem with Agg only).

Any idea how to prevent from that?

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from my that of environement ('fr_FR'), it is automatically switched

--
Stephane Raynaud

2

Can you describe how you are changing the locale? It could be that Qt is reverting it to your system value every time a new figure window is created. Maybe you could set it somehow "deeper", like in an environment variable.

Cheers,
Mike

Stephane Raynaud wrote:

···

Hi,

when I set the locale to a value (let's say 'en_US.UTF-8' different
from my that of environement ('fr_FR'), it is automatically switched
back to 'fr_FR.UTF-8' after the first figure is created when the
backend is dervied from Qt (no problem with Agg only).

Any idea how to prevent from that?

--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

3

Can you describe how you are changing the locale? It could be that Qt
is reverting it to your system value every time a new figure window is
created. Maybe you could set it somehow "deeper", like in an
environment variable.

I simply perform a locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8').

A simple way to avoid this problem is to set the environement variable
at the same time :
os.environ['LANG'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
but it's not a clean way.

I guess, a MPL solution would be to check if locale.getlocale()
returns something else than (None,None) at the beginning of
new_figure_manager() and to set it back at the end.

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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe@...86...> wrote:

Cheers,
Mike

Stephane Raynaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I set the locale to a value (let's say 'en_US.UTF-8' different
> from my that of environement ('fr_FR'), it is automatically switched
> back to 'fr_FR.UTF-8' after the first figure is created when the
> backend is dervied from Qt (no problem with Agg only).
>
> Any idea how to prevent from that?
>

--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

--
Stephane Raynaud