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> Earlier versions of PEP 538 thus included "en\_US.UTF-8" on the
\> candidate target locale list, but that turned out to cause assorted
\> problems due to the "C -> en\_US" part of the coercion.

Hm, but PEP 538 says:

\> this PEP instead proposes to extend the "surrogateescape" default for stdin and stderr error handling to also apply to the three potential coercion target locales.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/#defaulting-to-surrogateescape-error-handling-on-the-standard-io-streams

I don't think en\_US.UTF-8 should use surrogateescape error handler.