Name
getdefaultlocale
Synopsis
getdefaultlocale(envvars
=['LANGUAGE','LC_ALL',
‘LC_TYPE','LANG'])
Examines the environment variables whose names are specified by
argument envvars
, in order. The first
variable found in the environment determines the default locale.
getdefaultlocale
returns a pair of strings
(
lang
,encoding
)
compliant with RFC 1766 (except for the 'C
'
locale), such as ('en_US','ISO8859-1')
. Each item
of the pair may be None
if
gedefaultlocale
is unable to discover what value
the item should have.
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