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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_locale ():
 """Search the default platform locale and norm it. @returns (locale, encoding) @rtype (string, string)"""

    try:
        loc, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
    except ValueError:
        # locale configuration is broken - ignore that
        loc, encoding = None, None
    if loc is None:
        loc = "C"
    else:
        loc = norm_locale(loc)
    if encoding is None:
        encoding = "ascii"
    return (loc, encoding)