[issue15595] subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True) does not work for certain locales

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

> How do you set the locale encoding to UTF-16? Do you mean UTF-16, UTF-16-LE or UTF-16-BE?

I confirmed that the issue occurs for all of these.  For testing purposes, you can do--

locale.getpreferredencoding = lambda do_setlocale: 'utf-16'

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