[issue1443504] locale.getpreferredencoding() dies when setlocale fails

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org> added the comment:

Shouldn't the fallback be to setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C") instead of
silently passing, though?

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