diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
index 6bc2917..d4ae4a0 100644
--- a/Modules/main.c
+++ b/Modules/main.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,8 @@
 
 
 static int
-pymain_init(_PyMain *pymain, PyInterpreterState **interp_p)
+pymain_init(_PyMain *pymain, PyInterpreterState **interp_p,
+            int use_c_locale_coercion)
 {
     /* 754 requires that FP exceptions run in "no stop" mode by default,
      * and until C vendors implement C99's ways to control FP exceptions,
@@ -1713,6 +1714,11 @@
 
     _PyCoreConfig local_config = _PyCoreConfig_INIT;
     _PyCoreConfig *config = &local_config;
+    if (use_c_locale_coercion) {
+        /* set to -1 to be able to enable the feature */
+        config->_coerce_c_locale = -1;
+        config->_coerce_c_locale_warn = -1;
+    }
 
     _PyCoreConfig_GetGlobalConfig(config);
 
@@ -1747,10 +1753,10 @@
 
 
 static int
-pymain_main(_PyMain *pymain)
+pymain_main(_PyMain *pymain, int use_c_locale_coercion)
 {
     PyInterpreterState *interp;
-    int res = pymain_init(pymain, &interp);
+    int res = pymain_init(pymain, &interp, use_c_locale_coercion);
     if (res != 1) {
         if (pymain_run_python(pymain, interp) < 0) {
             _Py_FatalInitError(pymain->err);
@@ -1777,10 +1783,22 @@
     pymain.argc = argc;
     pymain.wchar_argv = argv;
 
-    return pymain_main(&pymain);
+    return pymain_main(&pymain, 0);
 }
 
 
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+int
+_Py_WindowsMain(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
+{
+    _PyMain pymain = _PyMain_INIT;
+    pymain.use_bytes_argv = 0;
+    pymain.argc = argc;
+    pymain.wchar_argv = argv;
+
+    return pymain_main(&pymain, 1);
+}
+#else
 int
 _Py_UnixMain(int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -1789,8 +1807,9 @@
     pymain.argc = argc;
     pymain.bytes_argv = argv;
 
-    return pymain_main(&pymain);
+    return pymain_main(&pymain, 1);
 }
+#endif
 
 
 /* this is gonna seem *real weird*, but if you put some other code between