On 28/08/2018 13:20, STINNER Victor wrote:
> I updated my PR 8969 to implement properly my idea. With this PR, on HP-UX with C or POSIX locale, Python now uses ASCII for its "filesystem encoding": sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns "ascii".
>
> Michael: can you please try my updated PR 8969?
>
> * apply the updated change
> * recompile Python
> * run the test suite using: LC_ALL=C ./python -m test -j0 -r
>
> You may also test with the current locale: ./python -m test -j0 -r

Seems to work well as far as AIX and test_utf8_mode (as you had already
merged I pulled master and built that anew).

Attached is the output with LC_ALL=C in the prefix. If you were hoping
for "dangling processes - your hopes are affirmed.

Perhaps also noteworthy:

root@x066:[/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.8]set | grep LC
LC__FASTMSG=true
MAILCHECK=600
root@x066:[/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.8]set | grep LANG
LANG=en_US