encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
(which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.

encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
(which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka (reviewed by Martin and Raymond).

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Jonathan Kotta.