gh-95027: Fix regrtest stdout encoding on Windows (GH-98492)

On Windows, when the Python test suite is run with the -jN option, the ANSI code page is now used as the encoding for the stdout temporary file, rather than using UTF-8 which can lead to decoding errors. (cherry picked from commit ec1f6f5) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
python · Oct 24, 2022 · 6b99998 · 6b99998
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diff --git a/Lib/test/libregrtest/runtest_mp.py b/Lib/test/libregrtest/runtest_mp.py
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 from test.libregrtest.setup import setup_tests
 from test.libregrtest.utils import format_duration, print_warning
 
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import locale
+
 
 # Display the running tests if nothing happened last N seconds
 PROGRESS_UPDATE = 30.0   # seconds
@@ -259,11 +262,16 @@ def _run_process(self, test_name: str, stdout_fh: TextIO) -> int:
             self.current_test_name = None
 
     def _runtest(self, test_name: str) -> MultiprocessResult:
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            # gh-95027: When stdout is not a TTY, Python uses the ANSI code
+            # page for the sys.stdout encoding. If the main process runs in a
+            # terminal, sys.stdout uses WindowsConsoleIO with UTF-8 encoding.
+            encoding = locale.getencoding()
+        else:
+            encoding = sys.stdout.encoding
         # gh-94026: Write stdout+stderr to a tempfile as workaround for
         # non-blocking pipes on Emscripten with NodeJS.
-        with tempfile.TemporaryFile(
-            'w+', encoding=sys.stdout.encoding
-        ) as stdout_fh:
+        with tempfile.TemporaryFile('w+', encoding=encoding) as stdout_fh:
             # gh-93353: Check for leaked temporary files in the parent process,
             # since the deletion of temporary files can happen late during
             # Python finalization: too late for libregrtest.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2022-10-20-17-49-50.gh-issue-95027.viRpJB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2022-10-20-17-49-50.gh-issue-95027.viRpJB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+On Windows, when the Python test suite is run with the ``-jN`` option, the
+ANSI code page is now used as the encoding for the stdout temporary file,
+rather than using UTF-8 which can lead to decoding errors. Patch by Victor
+Stinner.