Vinay Sajip added the comment:

> I suspect that this can break backward compatibility.

But since venv writes it out as UTF-8 already, it should be read in UTF-8, and 
if it isn't, isn't that the cause of the error which led to this bug we're 
talking about?

If we now write it with locale encoding, anything that previously assumed we 
were writing it in UTF-8 might break. While I'm not aware of any specific 
software which reads pyvenv.cfg other than the site.py code, there could well 
be third party code which does so.

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