How to select Japanese locale on Windows?

Question

When I try

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, 'ja-JP')

I get the error message

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

How do I fix that? I'm using Python 2.7.3 on Windows 7.

Answer 1

If you're using windows, this doesn't work because the japanese locale is 'jpn'. Try:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, 'jpn')

Here is a list of country/region strings supported.

Answer 2

在Windows上，必须将字符串“ japanese”而不是“ ja-JP”用作locale.setlocale（）的第二个参数。