[issue1609] test_re.py fails

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

> But it should be affected by locale, thats the point of locale.setlocale
> call. This is how libc's wc functions behave.

No, the locale should only affect 8-bit string operations, never
unicode operations.

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