locale: 'utf' is not a known encoding

[doko42]

BPO	1166957
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @doko42
Files	locale3.diff

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labels = ['library']
title = "locale: 'utf' is not a known encoding"
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1166957'
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[doko42]

checked with glibc-2.3.2 on a Debian/sarge system. The
locale_alias and the encoding_alias tables map the
encoding from utf-8, utf8 to utf, which is not a valid
encoding, at least on this system.

LANG=de_DE.utf-8 python -c 'import locale;
locale.resetlocale()'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 391, in
resetlocale
    _setlocale(category,
_build_localename(getdefaultlocale()))
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

[birkenfeld]

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This file is one big patch for bpo-1166938, bpo-1166948 and bpo-1166957.

[doko42]

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already fixed on HEAD, rejected for the branch