[issue9992] Command line arguments are not correctly decodediflocale and fileystem encodingsaredifferent

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> However, I completely fail to see the advantage that the
> PYTHONFSENCODING variable has over the LANG variable. If it's
> possible to set PTHONFSENCODING in some application, it surely
> is also possible to set LANG (or LC_CTYPE), no? Setting the
> latter also gives you the advantage that environment variables
> and command line arguments use the same encoding as file names.

I guess LANG and LC_CTYPE can be used for other purposes such as
internationalization.

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