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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_io/fileio.c b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
index 164f7e46d1..555dc12c69 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/fileio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ fileio_init(PyObject *oself, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
return -1;
stringobj = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(
- u, Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "utf8b");
+ u, Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "surrogateescape");
Py_DECREF(u);
if (stringobj == NULL)
return -1;