[Bug 824734] Re: locale.normalize does not accept unicode: TypeError in normalize(): character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

[Barry Warsaw]

I have submitted a potential patch to the Python tracker.  I'd like to
get a little feedback on it before applying it both upstream and in
Ubuntu.

** Changed in: python2.7 (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Barry Warsaw (barry)

** Changed in: python2.7 (Ubuntu Oneiric)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-11.10-beta-1

** Changed in: python2.7 (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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Title:
  locale.normalize does not accept unicode: TypeError in normalize():
  character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

Status in Python:
  Unknown
Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “python2.7” source package in Oneiric:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  locale.normalize does accept unicode strings anymore in python 2.7.2:

  python2.7 -c "import locale; locale.normalize(u'en_US')"
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 358, in normalize
      fullname = localename.translate(_ascii_lower_map)
  TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

  This breaks various packages, like updatemanager, playonlinux (bug
  825421) and aptdaemon (bug 825056)

  reported upstream:
  http://bugs.python.org/issue12752

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