strange behaviour of locale.getlocale() -> None, None

[feth]

BPO	12699
Nosy	@vstinner
Superseder	bpo-6203: locale documentation doesn't mention that LC_CTYPE is changed at startup

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2011-08-05.21:34:37.173>
created_at = <Date 2011-08-05.20:23:11.008>
labels = []
title = 'strange behaviour of locale.getlocale() -> None, None'
updated_at = <Date 2011-08-09.15:46:48.728>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/feth'

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activity = <Date 2011-08-09.15:46:48.728>
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closed_date = <Date 2011-08-05.21:34:37.173>
closer = 'ned.deily'
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creation = <Date 2011-08-05.20:23:11.008>
creator = 'feth'
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issue_num = 12699
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '6203'
type = None
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue12699'
versions = ['Python 2.7']

[feth]

Tested on linux arch & debian, freeBSD and MacOSX :

% python2.7
[...]
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
>>> locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)  #or any type
(None, None)

% python3.2
[...]
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
('fr_FR', 'UTF-8')

We feel this is strange!

[vstinner]

It should be related to bpo-6203.