Follow-up PR to https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/17370 when the path is not prefixed with a locale and the default locale is the detected locale it doesn't redirect to locale prefixed variant. If the default locale path is visited and the default locale is visited this also redirects to the root removing the un-necessary locale in the URL.
This also exposes the `defaultLocale` on the router since the RFC mentions `Setting a defaultLocale is required in every i18n library so it'd be useful for Next.js to provide it to the application.` although doesn't explicitly spec where we want to expose it. If we want to expose it differently this can be updated.
This adds the initial changes outlined in the [i18n routing RFC](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/17078). This currently treats the locale prefix on routes similar to how the basePath is treated in that the config doesn't require any changes to your pages directory and is automatically stripped/added based on the detected locale that should be used.
Currently redirecting occurs on the `/` route if a locale is detected regardless of if an optional catch-all route would match the `/` route or not we may want to investigate whether we want to disable this redirection automatically if an `/index.js` file isn't present at root of the pages directory.
TODO:
- [x] ensure locale detection/populating works in serverless mode correctly
- [x] add tests for locale handling in different modes, fallback/getStaticProps/getServerSideProps
To be continued in fall-up PRs
- [ ] add tests for revalidate, auto-export, basePath + i18n
- [ ] add mapping of domains with locales
- [ ] investigate detecting locale against non-index routes and populating the locale in a cookie
x-ref: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/17110
