> None of that explains why the test doesn't seem to run at all on the 
> buildbots though.

Are the buildbots using an older version of UCRT? BCP 47 locales used to strictly require a hyphen as the delimiter (e.g. 'tr-TR') instead of underscore (e.g. 'tr_TR'). Supporting underscore and UTF-8 are relatively recent additions that aren't documented yet. Even WINAPI GetLocaleInfoEx supports underscore as the delimiter now, which is also undocumented behavior.