[issue40996] urllib should fsdecode percent-encoded parts of file URIs on Unix

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[issue40996] urllib should fsdecode percent-encoded parts of file URIs on Unix

New submission from Manuel Jacob : On Unix, file names are bytes. Python mostly prefers to use unicode for file names. On the Python <-> system boundary, os.fsencode() / os.fsdecode() are used. In URIs, bytes can be percent-encoded. On Unix, most applications pass the percent-decoded bytes