Piotr Sikora wrote:
> 
> Piotr Sikora <piotr.sikora@frickle.com> added the comment:
> 
> It's the same on OpenBSD (and I'm pretty sure it's true for other BSDs as well).
> 
>>>> locale.resetlocale()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 523, in resetlocale
>     _setlocale(category, _build_localename(getdefaultlocale()))
> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>>>> locale._build_localename(locale.getdefaultlocale())
> 'en_US.UTF8'
> 
> Works fine with Marc-Andre's alias table fix.
> 
> Any chances this will be eventually fixed in 2.x?

This can go into Python 2.7, and, of course, into the 3.x
branches.