Given Stephan's comments regarding Android support I'm beginning to think that I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Is there an option between 'constant work' and 'zero contribution'?

I am not by any means an Android developer so the following is possibly riddled with miconceptions and errata, but, regarding locale support, I think there's a difference between 'regular' and 'native' development.  Native development involves using the NDK to port various bits of C-written utilities and libraries to Android...like python... and it is where the locale is broken, because of Android's limited libc.