[issue12726] explain that locale.getlocale() does not read system's locales

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

locale.getlocale(category=LC_CTYPE)

    Returns the current setting for the given locale category as sequence containing language code, encoding. category may be one of the LC_* values except LC_ALL. It defaults to LC_CTYPE.

    Except for the code 'C', the language code corresponds to RFC 1766. language code and encoding may be None if their values cannot be determined.
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The non-standard 'C' language code is documented.  I am not sure that 'current program setting' is an improvement, especially if details have changed.  So closing as 'good enough'

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resolution:  -> works for me
stage: needs patch -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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