[issue32096] Py_DecodeLocale() fails if used before the runtime is initialized.

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

Nick: "Should we deprecate our implied support for calling Py_DecodeLocale() before calling Py_Initialize()?"

Please don't do that. Py_DecodeLocale() is the best available function to decode paths and environment variables to initialize Python. The implementation of Py_DecodeLocale() is very complex, but we need this complexity to decode "correctly" OS data.

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