Locale improperly set after language change in UI

[scott967]

Bug report

Describe the bug

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When UI language is set to English (New Zealand) and then changed in the settings to English, the locale is switched to en-au

Expected Behavior

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When selecting language English, locale should be set to en-gb

Actual Behavior

Extracted from debug log:
info <general>: CLangInfo: loading resource.language.en_gb language information... debug <general>: trying to set locale to en-au info <general>: global locale set to en-au

Possible Fix

Suspect problem might be going from a language with a region (English (New Zealand)) to a language with no region (England)
Possibly change languages for English, France, Portuguese, Spanish defaults to include region?

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. On fresh install, install English (New Zealand) and English (Australia) language resource addons
2. Switch UI language to English (New Zealand) in settings
3. Swicth language to English in settings

Debuglog

The debuglog can be found here:
https://paste.kodi.tv/lubakejixi.kodi

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Additional context or screenshots (if appropriate)

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Discovered while testing fix for invalid function return in xbmc.getLanguage with optional parameter region set to "True" so that the function returns region info with language.
Verified by looking at settings / interface / regional

Your Environment

Used Operating system:

• Android

• iOS

• tvOS

• Linux

• macOS

• Windows

• Windows UWP

• Operating system version/name: Win 10 x64 22H2 OS system language / locale en-us

• Kodi version: 22 WinX64 desktop

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