#5559 HIGH Update.: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting

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#5559: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting
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  Reporter:  chihyu  |       Owner:  marco   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  review+ 
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:          |  
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Comment(by rkern):

 Hmm, the [http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html Python
 documentation] says "For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent."
 This implies (to me) that for unicode strings the method isn't locale-
 dependent. None of the systems I have available to me behave as you
 describe, but I may not have Turkish locale support installed.

 The problem I have is that numpy is a library, not an application. I can't
 really control the locale without being very unneighborly to the
 application using numpy and any other library in the process. The
 [http://docs.python.org/lib/node746.html Python documentation] explicitly
 recommends against it. It would be easier to use unicode strings with
 ASCII characters (if the locale doesn't interfere with that as you claim),
 or replace all of our calls to {{{''.lower()}}} with a utility function
 that uses English rules.

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