#6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
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+- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
+  if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
+
 - Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
   been reassigned.