using locales

[garykpdx]

Is there some sort of tutorial on locales or the locale module?

I can't seem to find a list showing all possible locales. I made 'en'
work alright, but when I tried 'de' or 'de_DE' or 'es_ES', etc. it said
that those were not valid locaes. Worst of all, when I tried 'es' it
said that this was estonian?! Obviously, this is not what ISO 639 says.
'es' should be Spanish, and Estonian should be 'et.

Anyway, I'd love to have a method called get_available_locales to tell
me what I can use on my machine, or something like that.

Can anyone tell me how I *do* get these names?

Thanks

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unicode encoding problem

[garykpdx]

Every time I think I understand unicode, I prove I don't.

I created a variable in interactive mode like this:
s = u'ä'
where this character is the a-umlaut
that worked alright. Then I encoded it like this:
s.encode( 'latin1')

and it printed out a sigma (totally wrong)

then I typed this:
s.encode( 'utf-8')

Then it gave me two weird characters +ñ

So how do I tell what encoding my unicode string is in, and how do I
retrieve that when I read it from a file?

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