[New-bugs-announce] [issue47000] Make encoding="locale" uses locale encoding even in UTF-8 mode is enabled.

[Inada Naoki]

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

Currently, `encoding="locale"` is just shortcut of `encoding=locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`.

`encoding="locale"` means that "locale encoding should be used here, even if Python default encoding is changed to UTF-8".

I am not sure that UTF-8 mode becomes the default or not.
But some user want to use UTF-8 mode to change default encoding in their Python environments without waiting Python default encoding changed.

So I think `encoding="locale"` should use real locale encoding (ACP on Windows) regardless UTF-8 mode is enabled or not.

Currently, UTF-8 mode affects to `_Py_GetLocaleEncoding()`. So it is difficult that make encoding="locale" ignores UTF-8 mode.
Is it safe to use `locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)[1] or "UTF-8"`?

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components: Unicode
messages: 415028
nosy: ezio.melotti, methane, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make encoding="locale" uses locale encoding even in UTF-8 mode is enabled.
versions: Python 3.11

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