Re: [Matplotlib-users] locale and Qt

[Stephane R. <ste...@gm...>]

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

>
>  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