Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> writes: > According to GNU gettext documentation[1]: "The variable LANGUAGE is > ignored if the locale is set to ‘C’."
That exception was added on 2001-01-03, for glibc 2.2.1. In glibc 2.2, LANGUAGE used to override LC_ALL=C. In Python 2.0 (released on 2000-10-16), 2.7, and 3.5.0, gettext.py checks LANGUAGE first, like glibc 2.2. The loop that checks the environment variables is exactly the same in these three versions. I searched for "gettext" at bugs.python.org but it didn't find a bug report for the priority of LANGUAGE vs. LC_ALL=C in gettext. http://bugs.python.org/issue1166948 says 'LANGUAGE is honoured even if the default locale is "C"' but I think that refers to locale.getdefaultencoding, not to gettext.
