BUG: Need 'windows-1252' encoding for locale names.

#24760
#23638
There are some special characters encoded with 'window-1252' in lists
created by 'locale -a'.  The two know locales with this problem are
Norwegian 'bokmål', and 'français'.

Author: timcera

pandas/_config/localization.py

@@ -146,10 +146,19 @@ def get_locales(prefix=None, normalize=True, locale_getter=_default_locale_gette
         # raw_locales is "\n" separated list of locales
         # it may contain non-decodable parts, so split
         # extract what we can and then rejoin.
-        raw_locales = raw_locales.split(b"\n")
+        raw_locales = raw_locales.split(b'\n')
         out_locales = []
         for x in raw_locales:
-            out_locales.append(str(x, encoding=options.display.encoding))
+            try:
+                out_locales.append(str(
+                    x, encoding=options.display.encoding))
+            except UnicodeError:
+                # 'locale -a' is used to populated 'raw_locales' and on
+                # Redhat 7 Linux (and maybe others) prints locale names
+                # using windows-1252 encoding.  Bug only triggered by
+                # a few special characters and when there is an
+                # extensive list of installed locales.
+                out_locales.append(str(x, encoding='windows-1252'))
 
     except TypeError:
         pass