STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> Perhaps. We could also declare that command line arguments and
> environment variables are always UTF-8-encoded on OSX (which I think
> would be fairly accurate)

Python uses the filesystem encoding to encode/decode environment variables, 
and OSX, fs encoding is utf-8. For the command line, it would mean that we 
introduced a new encoding: "command line encoding", which will be utf-8 on 
OSX.

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title: Command line arguments are not correctly decodedif locale        and 
fileystem encodings aredifferent -> Command line arguments are not correctly 
decodediflocale        and fileystem encodingsaredifferent

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