Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page on
Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if we
cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
instead of using UTF-8.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5a003ab..350427e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
+ on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
+ we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
+ instead of using UTF-8.
+
- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
generator.