[issue17429] platform.platform() can throw Unicode error

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

What's the most likely encoding? UTF-8? I suggest we assume UTF-8, and use the surrogate-escape error handler to deal with the cases when it isn't.

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nosy: +loewis

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