Update locale related code

Author: johnsamuelwrites

.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ jobs:
         pybabel compile -d inclusivewriting/locales -D inclusivewriting
         coverage run --source=inclusivewriting -m unittest tests.tests
         coverage report -m
+    - name: Validate resource schema
+      run: |
+        python -m unittest tests.resource_schema_test
     - name: Generate documentation
       run: |
         rm -rf build/html

inclusivewriting/locale_utils.py

@@ -15,8 +15,14 @@ def get_default_locale_encoding():
     """
     Get default locale information
     """
-    default, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
-    return default, encoding
+    default_locale, _ = locale.getlocale()
+    encoding = locale.getencoding()
+
+    if default_locale is None or default_locale == "":
+        default_locale = "en_US"
+    if encoding is None or encoding == "":
+        encoding = "utf-8"
+    return default_locale, encoding
 
 
 def get_default_locale_message_handler():

tests/locale_utils_test.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 """
 
 import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
 from inclusivewriting.locale_utils import (
     get_default_locale_encoding,
     get_default_locale_message_handler,
@@ -42,6 +43,16 @@ def test_get_default_locale_encoding(self):
         self.assertTrue(language is not None)
         self.assertTrue(encoding is not None)
 
+    @patch("inclusivewriting.locale_utils.locale.getencoding", return_value=None)
+    @patch("inclusivewriting.locale_utils.locale.getlocale", return_value=(None, None))
+    def test_get_default_locale_encoding_fallback(self, _, __):
+        """
+        Test locale fallback values when system locale details are unavailable.
+        """
+        language, encoding = get_default_locale_encoding()
+        self.assertEqual(language, "en_US")
+        self.assertEqual(encoding, "utf-8")
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()

tests/resource_schema_test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 John Samuel <johnsamuelwrites@gmail.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+#
+
+"""
+Test suite for validating resource schema consistency
+"""
+
+import json
+import unittest
+
+import pkg_resources
+
+from inclusivewriting.configuration import get_all_language_resources
+from inclusivewriting.file_utils import read_file
+from inclusivewriting.suggestions import _validate_and_build_suggestion
+
+
+class ResourceSchemaTestSuite(unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    Test cases for resource schema validation.
+    """
+
+    def test_all_configured_suggestion_resources_are_valid(self):
+        """
+        Validate all configured JSON suggestion resources.
+        """
+        resources = get_all_language_resources("./inclusivewriting/configuration.json")
+        for resource_type, resource_files in resources.items():
+            if resource_type == "separators":
+                continue
+
+            for resource_file in resource_files:
+                path = pkg_resources.resource_filename("inclusivewriting", resource_file)
+                parsed_data = json.loads(read_file(path))
+                self.assertTrue(isinstance(parsed_data, dict))
+                for key, value in parsed_data.items():
+                    self.assertTrue(_validate_and_build_suggestion(key, value) is not None)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

tests/tests.py

@@ -14,20 +14,23 @@
 from tests.locale_utils_test import LocaleUtilsTestSuite
 from tests.suggestions_test import SuggestionsTestSuite
 from tests.cli_test import CliTestSuite
+from tests.resource_schema_test import ResourceSchemaTestSuite
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unicode_utils_tests = UnicodeUtilsTestSuite()
     file_utils_tests = FileUtilsTestSuite()
     suggestions_tests = SuggestionsTestSuite()
     locales_tests = LocaleUtilsTestSuite()
     cli_tests = CliTestSuite()
+    resource_schema_tests = ResourceSchemaTestSuite()
     tests = unittest.TestSuite(
         [
             unicode_utils_tests,
             file_utils_tests,
             suggestions_tests,
             locales_tests,
             cli_tests,
+            resource_schema_tests,
         ]
     )
     unittest.main()