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 Library
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+- Issue #9644: Fix the encoding used by os.statvfs(): use the filesystem
+  encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of UTF-8 in strict
+  mode.
+
 - Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
 
 - Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.