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> > We should not overcomplicate this. I suggest that we simply use utf-8 under the C locale.
> 
> Do you mean utf8/strict or utf8/surrogateescape?
> 
> utf8/strict doesn't work (os.listdir raises an unicode error) if your
> system is configured to use latin1 (ex: filenames are stored in this
> encoding), but unfortunately your program is running in an empty
> environment (so will use the POSIX locale).

The issue is about stdin and stdout, I'm not sure why os.listdir would
be affected.