No time to compile for a couple of days. Stress from others wins instead. 

Maybe on Friday. 

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> On 28 Aug 2018, at 13:20, STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <vstinner@redhat.com> added the comment:
> 
>> -            check('utf8=0', [arg.decode(encoding, 'surrogateescape')],
>> +            check('utf8=0', [arg.decode('ascii', 'surrogateescape')],
>>                   LC_ALL='C')
>> (...)
>> == Tests result: SUCCESS ==
> 
> Good, it works.
> 
> I updated my PR 8969 to implement properly my idea. With this PR, on HP-UX with C or POSIX locale, Python now uses ASCII for its "filesystem encoding": sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns "ascii".
> 
> Michael: can you please try my updated PR 8969?
> 
> * apply the updated change
> * recompile Python
> * run the test suite using: LC_ALL=C ./python -m test -j0 -r
> 
> You may also test with the current locale: ./python -m test -j0 -r
> 
> If everything is good on your side, I will merge my PR.
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