locale.c: Don't do asymmetric back out on failure #23172
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This fixes #23159
When something goes wrong doing locale-aware string collation, the code attempts to carry on as well as can be expected. prior to this commit the backout code was asymmetric, trying to undo things that had not been done. This happened when the failure was early on.
In the case of this ticket, the platform has a defective locale that was detectable before getting very far along.
The solution adopted here is to jump to a different label for those early failures that does less backout than for later failures.