gettext's default localedir does not match documentation

[thperret]

BPO	39501
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @thperret

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closed_at = <Date 2020-02-10.21:37:16.562>
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labels = ['type-bug', 'library', 'docs']
title = "gettext's default localedir does not match documentation"
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[thperret]

gettext's documentation (Doc/library/gettext.rst:724) states that default locale directory is: "sys.prefix/share/locale" but the code in gettext module (Lib/gettext.py:63) uses "sys.base_prefix/share/locale"

[gvanrossum]

Fixed by Carl-y in PR 18435, PR 18440, PR 18439. (Sorry, those commits were attributed to bpo-3950 by mistake.)