Issue #26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded

to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with
os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
index b71bb9f..ae2bcd4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import shutil
 import sys
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
-from test.support import script_helper
+from test.support import script_helper, is_android
 from test.support.script_helper import (spawn_python, kill_python, assert_python_ok,
     assert_python_failure)
 
@@ -178,15 +178,16 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
         if not stdout.startswith(pattern):
             raise AssertionError("%a doesn't start with %a" % (stdout, pattern))
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform == 'darwin', 'test specific to Mac OS X')
-    def test_osx_utf8(self):
+    @unittest.skipUnless((sys.platform == 'darwin' or
+                is_android), 'test specific to Mac OS X and Android')
+    def test_osx_android_utf8(self):
         def check_output(text):
             decoded = text.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
             expected = ascii(decoded).encode('ascii') + b'\n'
 
             env = os.environ.copy()
             # C locale gives ASCII locale encoding, but Python uses UTF-8
-            # to parse the command line arguments on Mac OS X
+            # to parse the command line arguments on Mac OS X and Android.
             env['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
 
             p = subprocess.Popen(