[New-bugs-announce] [issue43214] site: Potential UnicodeDecodeError when handling pth file

[Inada Naoki]

New submission from Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4230bd52e3f9f289f02e41ab17a95f50ed4db5a6/Lib/site.py#L160

```
        f = io.TextIOWrapper(io.open_code(fullname))
```

When default text encoding is not UTF-8 and pth file contains non-ASCII character, it will raise UnicodeDecodeError.

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: 3.8regression
messages: 386916
nosy: methane
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: site: Potential UnicodeDecodeError when handling pth file
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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