[issue18109] os.uname() crashes if hostname contains non-ascii characters

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

issue18109.patch is not correct: it uses the locale encoding in strict mode, the surrogateescape error handler should be used instead. I rewrote the patch. I removed the unit test because changing a hostname is really unexpected and may break (crash?) running desktop applications. The hostname is something too critical IMO. I ran the test manually on my Linux box at least ;-)

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