diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ pymain_read_conf(_PyMain *pymain, _PyCoreConfig *config,
         * See the documentation of the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE setting for more
         * details.
         */
-        if (config->coerce_c_locale == 1 && !locale_coerced) {
            locale_coerced = 1;
            _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale(config);
            encoding_changed = 1;
@@ -1369,13 +1369,15 @@ pymain_read_conf(_PyMain *pymain, _PyCoreConfig *config,
        /* Reset the configuration before reading again the configuration,
           just keep UTF-8 Mode value. */
        int new_utf8_mode = config->utf8_mode;
        if (_PyCoreConfig_Copy(config, &save_config) < 0) {
            pymain->err = _Py_INIT_NO_MEMORY();
            goto done;
        }
        pymain_clear_cmdline(pymain, cmdline);
        memset(cmdline, 0, sizeof(*cmdline));
        config->utf8_mode = new_utf8_mode;

        /* The encoding changed: read again the configuration
           with the new encoding */