Support POSIX uselocale interface for thread-specific locale settings

[ned-deily]

BPO	23800
Nosy	@malemburg, @loewis, @ned-deily

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title = 'Support POSIX uselocale interface for thread-specific locale settings'
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[ned-deily]

POSIX 2008 provides a system interface, uselocale, to set locales individually on a thread basis rather than just process global, as currently supported with locale.setlocale(). uselocale is supported in most current GNU libc, BSD, and OS X releases. While there is currently a third-party package available in PyPI, it currently doesn't claim to support Python 3 and it would be good to have uselocale as part of the standard library where available.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/stage7tc1/functions/uselocale.html

https://github.com/wichert/xlocale