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[3.13] gh-154580: Fix python-gdb.py pretty-printing non-ASCII strings in non-UTF-8 locales (GH-154581)#154637

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[3.13] gh-154580: Fix python-gdb.py pretty-printing non-ASCII strings in non-UTF-8 locales (GH-154581)#154637
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(cherry picked from commit 6cb93bd)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 noreply@anthropic.com

…trings 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 6cb93bd)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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