Add special consideration for rlcompleter. As a side effect of
initializing GNU readline, setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") is called, which changes the <ctype.h> macros to use the "default" locale (which isn't the *initial* locale -- the initial locale is the "C" locale in which only ASCII characters are printable). When the default locale is e.g. Latin-1, the repr() of string objects can include 8-bit characters with the high bit set; I believe this is due to the recent PRINT_MULTIBYTE_STRING changes to stringobject.c. This in turn screws up test_pyexpat and test_rotor, which depend on the repr() of 8-bit strings with high bit characters. The solution (for now) is to force the LC_CTYPE locale to "C" after importing rlcompleter. This is the locale required by the test suite anyway.
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