[issue17429] platform.platform() can throw Unicode error

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Toshio Kuratomi added the comment:

I agree.  In my experience, utf-8 is the most common encoding.  Updated patch that defaults to utf-8 instead of the user's locale is attached.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29420/00175-platform-unicode.patch

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