[3.15] gh-154580: Fix python-gdb.py pretty-printing non-ASCII strings in non-UTF-8 locales (GH-154581)#154635
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…in non-UTF-8 locales (pythonGH-154581) The gdb pretty-printer used locale.getpreferredencoding() to decide whether to escape a character, but gdb writes its output in its host charset. Use gdb.host_charset() instead. test_strings had the same problem. (cherry picked from commit 6cb93bd039ec1c5e0909d2d75cfc4fb3641c693b) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The gdb pretty-printer used locale.getpreferredencoding() to decide whether to
escape a character, but gdb writes its output in its host charset. Use
gdb.host_charset() instead. test_strings had the same problem.
(cherry picked from commit 6cb93bd)
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 noreply@anthropic.com