[issue40543] Tamil locale is using outdated encoding

Ammar Askar added the comment: Hi Muthu, thanks for reporting this! Looks like this is related to issue20087 whereby the X11 locale data for TA_IN is using TSCII but the glibc supported file has the UTF-8 alias. Pending a resolution to that bug, I think your best course of action would be t

[issue40543] Tamil locale is using outdated encoding

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[issue40543] Tamil locale is using outdated encoding

New submission from Muthu A : Tamil locale (TA_IN, TA_SL, TA_SG, TA_MY) is using outdated encoding of TSCII. Tamil community is widely using UTF-8 encoding. Further, the 'locale' standard library package in Python3 should be updated with these strings. Should the maintainers desire assistance