[issue31565] open() doesn't use locale.getpreferredencoding()

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[issue31565] open() doesn't use locale.getpreferredencoding()

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: It is documented that the default encoding for open() and io.TextIOWrapper() is locale.getpreferredencoding(). But actually the C implementation in Python 3 uses _bootlocale.getpreferredencoding(). Monkey-patching locale.getpreferredencoding doesn't