$ PYTHONFSENCODING=latin-1 ./python Lib/test/test_warnings.py
...
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FAIL: test_nonascii (__main__.CEnvironmentVariableTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib/test/test_warnings.py", line 731, in test_nonascii
"['ignore:DeprecaciónWarning']".encode('utf-8'))
AssertionError: b"['ignore:Deprecaci\\udcf3nWarning']" != b"['ignore:Deprecaci\xc3\xb3nWarning']"
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FAIL: test_nonascii (__main__.PyEnvironmentVariableTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib/test/test_warnings.py", line 731, in test_nonascii
"['ignore:DeprecaciónWarning']".encode('utf-8'))
AssertionError: b"['ignore:Deprecaci\\udcf3nWarning']" != b"['ignore:Deprecaci\xc3\xb3nWarning']"
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The problem is that subprocess encodes PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable value with the filesystem encoding, whereas Py_main() decodes the variable value with the locale encoding.
History of how the variable is read in py3k:
- #7301: r79880 creates this variable, use mbstowcs() and PySys_AddWarnOption()
- #7301: r80066 uses setlocale(LC_ALL, ""), and replaces mbstowcs() by _Py_char2wchar() (to support surrogates)
- #8589: r81358 creates PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() and replaces _Py_char2wchar() by PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault()
- #8589: r84694 replaces PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() by _Py_char2wchar() + PyUnicode_FromWideChar() "because the PyCodec machinery is not ready yet"
- #8589: r84731 uses PyUnicode_FromString() (utf-8) on Mac OS X