--- Lib/locale.py~	2004-07-26 14:45:59.000000000 +0200
+++ Lib/locale.py	2005-03-20 13:43:56.593415041 +0100
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
     else:
         return language + '.' + encoding
 
-def getdefaultlocale(envvars=('LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG')):
+def getdefaultlocale(envvars=('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE')):
 
     """ Tries to determine the default locale settings and returns
         them as tuple (language code, encoding).
@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@
     for variable in envvars:
         localename = lookup(variable,None)
         if localename:
+            if variable == 'LANGUAGE':
+                localename = localename.split(':')[0]
             break
     else:
         localename = 'C'
@@ -463,9 +465,9 @@
         'ajec':                         'eucJP',
         'eucjp':                        'eucJP',
         'ujis':                         'eucJP',
-        'utf-8':                        'utf',
-        'utf8':                         'utf',
-        'utf8@ucs4':                    'utf',
+        'utf':                          'utf-8',
+        'utf8':                         'utf-8',
+        'utf8@ucs4':                    'utf-8',
 }
 
 #