Add support for custom locale in modified time

[urosevic]

As reported on ST forum topic SideBar Enhanc.. (Clipboard, Open With., Reload renamed) I experienced issue with Serbian Cyrillic locale on Windows 10 - weekday and month name has been printed as question marks instead readable Cyrillic text in ST status-bar.

After some research, I decided to add new option to override default system locale in SideBarEnhancements option to print modified time in status-bar.

So, this pull-request adds support for custom locale of date/time with option 'statusbar_modified_time_locale'

Example for user's settings SideBar.sublime-settings file:

{ "statusbar_modified_time_locale": "Serbian (Latin)_Serbia", }

Cheers

[titoBouzout]

Hi! Thanks a lot, I'm gonna change it a bit but thank you for your reporting, investigation and fix of the issue

[titoBouzout]

Thanks for fixing the version number that was on my todo list. I changed the way is decode, because I dont want to alter the global locale. Can you please confirm still works by setting Serbian (Latin)_Serbia? Thanks!

[titoBouzout]

I believe the real problem here is this bug http://bugs.python.org/issue8304

Maybe this just works?
import time; sublime.active_window().active_view().set_status('test', time.strftime("%A %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y").decode('utf-8'));

[urosevic]

Unfortunately for me .decode() does not work:

>>> import time; sublime.active_window().active_view().set_status('test', time.strftime("%A %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y").decode('utf-8'));
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

That is because string is already decoded but as Windows 1251 in case of locale 'Serbian (Cyrillic)_Serbia.1251'.

Your latest changes in code does not produce any output to statusbar (because decode() does not work).

Solution with overriding system locale with:

{ "statusbar_modified_time_locale": "Serbian (Latin)_Serbia", }

work because then I'm getting weekday and month name in Serbian Latin script (encoding Windows 1250), or I even can use C locale instead localized date/time.

Hope this will help you to track down this tiny boring issue :)

[titoBouzout]

okei, what I want to avoid is to change the global locale, I just want the string in unicode. Maybe with this:

import time; sublime.active_window().active_view().set_status('test', time.strftime("%A %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y").encode('1251').decode('utf8'));

I think we should be able to change the encoding of the string that time.strftime outputs (if its not broken)