[issue30755] locale.normalize() and getdefaultlocale() convert C.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8

[Gordon Messmer]

Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I can see that it might be helpful to provide such a conversion if
> C.UTF-8 doesn't exist and en_US.UTF-8 does

That can't happen.  The "C" locale describes the behavior defined in the ISO C standard.  It's built-in to glibc (and should be for all other libc implementations).  All other locales require external support (i.e. /usr/lib/locale/<locale>)

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Standard-Locales.html#Standard-Locales

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