> But it is not what I want for now. I want to ignore UTF-8 mode
> when `encoding="locale"` is specified.
> This is almost "only in Windows" issue, and users can use
> `encoding="mbcs"` in Windows-only script.
Why is it being specified that the current LC_CTYPE encoding should be ignored in Windows when a "locale" encoding is requested? Cross-platform C code would use mbstowcs() and wcstombs(), with the current LC_CTYPE encoding. That's Latin-1 in the initial "C" locale and defaults to GetACP() if setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") is called, but otherwise it's whatever locale is requested by the program and supported by the system (all Windows installations support pretty much every locale).