unit_nk

helper to test nikola, transitorio

What was learned here ?

In Travis, if the builder's locales are set in the travis.yml as suggested in http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/common-build-problems/#System%3A-Required-langauge-pack-isn't-installed:

before_install:
  - sudo apt-get update
  - sudo apt-get --reinstall install -qq language-pack-en language-pack-es

We learn that in 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.3.

• The locales 'C', 'en_US.utf8', 'es_AR.utf8' are valid
• The locales 'C.utf8', 'en', 'es', 'en.utf8', 'es.utf8' are invalid
• The locales ('C', utf8), ('en', utf8), ('en_us', utf8), ('es', utf8), ('es_AR', utf8) are valid
• The prefered locale, obtained with getlocale(LC_ALL, '') is 'en_US.utf8'
• For the current nikola languajes, guessing the (string) locale by way of locale.normalize seems sensible.

Notice that locale functions don't coerce a string locale; string locale must be str in each python. It is safest then to express string locales in the way of locale_n = str('whatever'). This makes it work for any python, with or# without from future import unicode_literals