Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> It would still be better it is was unset afterwards. Third-party
> extensions could have LC_CTYPE-dependent behaviour.

In principle, they could, yes - but what specific behavior might that
be? What will change is character classification, which I consider
fairly harmless. Also, multi-byte conversion routines will change, which
is the primary reason for leaving it modified.

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title: 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation and to 
2.x behavior -> 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation 
and to 2.x behavior

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