Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
The main purpose of the alias table is to support normalization and this is
used for getdefaultencoding() which was created to be able to determine the
default encoding based on what X.org uses as default without doing temporary
setlocale() tricks.
Now, normalization also happens when passing a locale value to the underlying
setlocale(), mainly to avoid many common bugs due to setlocale() being
extremely picky about the locale value. A side effect of this is that
normalization will also kick in to add the encoding in case no encoding is
given in the parameter.
Note that no normalization is necessary to simply set the configured default
locale configured on the system. In such a case, you'd run setlocale('LC_ALL')
and get what's configured.
If you run the lib C setlocale() with a locale without encoding, the encoding
used by the system entirely on what's configured on the system. The SUPPORTED
file only gives a hint at what glibc think it should install per default, but
any admin or distributor could change these settings simply by running
localedef with some other encoding (charmap in locale speak).
I suppose that we could resolve some of the confusion by adding a parameter to
disable this normalization in setlocale().
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