#6338 NORM -: sugar.activity class should call locale.setlocale()

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#6338: sugar.activity class should call locale.setlocale()
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   Reporter:  pierre        |       Owner:  sayamindu                             
       Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                                   
   Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:                                        
  Component:  localization  |     Version:  Q2D16                                 
 Resolution:                |    Keywords:  french date format localization locale
Next_action:  review        |    Verified:  0                                     
  Blockedby:                |    Blocking:                                        
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Comment(by pierre):

 Since build 653 when I developped the Clock activity
 (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clock_activity), I've had problem displaying
 the name of the day or the date on my XO which is localized for fr_CA. In
 prevision of 8.2, I'm presently running a recent joyride, and I decided to
 solve that long lasting bug in this activity.

 I dont have my XO with me at the present time, so I can't give you more
 details. I'll update this ticket tonight with more information. For the
 time being, I just checked into the Clock activity code and yes I import
 gtk.

 Yesterday night when I updated the bug report, I created a test activity
 from the Activity Tutorial (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_tutorial),
 with a datetime.strftime("%x") instead of the Hello Word message, and it
 also exhibits the same problem, even if it imports gtk too. I'll upload
 the source tonight too, if you want it.

 I've tested your code snippet from the python command line and it works,
 without a call to setlocale(). But from my tests, it seems not to work in
 a Sugar activity context...

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