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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #19977: When the ``LC_TYPE`` locale is the POSIX locale (``C`` locale),
+  :py:data:`sys.stdin` and :py:data:`sys.stdout` are now using the
+  ``surrogateescape`` error handler, instead of the ``strict`` error handler.
+
 - Issue #20574: Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code
   page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8).