diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
index 992d720..82e0093 100644
--- a/Modules/main.c
+++ b/Modules/main.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@
          * See the documentation of the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE setting for more
          * details.
          */
-        if (config->coerce_c_locale == 1 && !locale_coerced) {
+        if (config->coerce_c_locale && !locale_coerced) {
             locale_coerced = 1;
             _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale(config);
             encoding_changed = 1;
@@ -1369,6 +1369,7 @@
         /* Reset the configuration before reading again the configuration,
            just keep UTF-8 Mode value. */
         int new_utf8_mode = config->utf8_mode;
+        int new_coerce_c_locale = config->coerce_c_locale;
         if (_PyCoreConfig_Copy(config, &save_config) < 0) {
             pymain->err = _Py_INIT_NO_MEMORY();
             goto done;
@@ -1376,6 +1377,7 @@
         pymain_clear_cmdline(pymain, cmdline);
         memset(cmdline, 0, sizeof(*cmdline));
         config->utf8_mode = new_utf8_mode;
+        config->coerce_c_locale = new_coerce_c_locale;
 
         /* The encoding changed: read again the configuration
            with the new encoding */