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gh-74940: Allow fallback to UTF-8 encoding on systems with no locales installed. #14925

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Allow fallback to UTF-8 encoding on systems with no locales installed.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Lib/locale.py
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Expand Up @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ def getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=True):
'c.ascii': 'C',
'c.en': 'C',
'c.iso88591': 'en_US.ISO8859-1',
'c.utf8': 'en_US.UTF-8',
'c.utf8': 'C.UTF-8',
'c_c': 'C',
'c_c.c': 'C',
'ca': 'ca_ES.ISO8859-1',
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-04-25-22-06-00.gh-issue-74940.TOacQ9.rst
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The C.UTF-8 locale is no longer converted to en_US.UTF-8, enabling the use
of UTF-8 encoding on systems which have no locales installed.