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Author loewis
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It always contains a byte string in the locale's encoding;
for compatibility, this cannot be changed.

On Windows, you can access the encoding as "mbcs". In
general, you need to use locale.getpreferredencoding() to
find out what encoding this string is in.

Closing as not-a-bug.
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