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On Windows 10 build 1903,
vstinner@WIN C:\vstinner\python\master>python -m test test_locale -m test_getsetlocale_issue1813 -v
== CPython 3.10.0a6+ (heads/master:ff3c9739bd, Mar 31 2021, 12:43:26) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
== Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 little-endian
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ERROR: test_getsetlocale_issue1813 (test.test_locale.TestMiscellaneous)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\vstinner\python\master\lib\test\test_locale.py", line 567, in test_getsetlocale_issue1813
 locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, loc)
 File "C:\vstinner\python\master\lib\locale.py", line 610, in setlocale
 return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
It's a bug in the weird locale.getlocale() function which produces a locale name which doesn't exist:
vstinner@WIN C:\vstinner\python\master>python
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "tr_TR") 
'tr_TR'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, None)
'tr_TR'
>>> locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) 
('tr_TR', 'ISO8859-9')
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ('tr_TR', 'ISO8859-9'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\vstinner\python\master\lib\locale.py", line 610, in setlocale
 return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, 'tr_TR')
'tr_TR'
If you use setlocale(LC_CTYPE, None) to get the locale, it works as expected.
IMO the getlocale() function is dangerous and should be removed: see bpo-43557 "Deprecate getdefaultlocale(), getlocale() and normalize() functions".