From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 05:07:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: gh-100750: pass encoding kwarg in lib/platform.py (GH-100751)
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gh-100750: pass encoding kwarg in lib/platform.py (GH-100751)

(cherry picked from commit 6b3993c556eb3bb36d1754a17643cddd3f6ade92)

Co-authored-by: Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 9e9f3af3ce4b..9b9d88bf5844 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ def _syscmd_ver(system='', release='', version='',
                                            stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                                            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                                            text=True,
+                                           encoding="locale",
                                            shell=True)
         except (OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError) as why:
             #print('Command %s failed: %s' % (cmd, why))
@@ -762,6 +763,7 @@ class _Processor:
                 ['uname', '-p'],
                 stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                 text=True,
+                encoding="utf8",
             ).strip()
         except (OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError):
             pass
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-04-14-42-59.gh-issue-100750.iFJs5Y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-04-14-42-59.gh-issue-100750.iFJs5Y.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be351532822c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-04-14-42-59.gh-issue-100750.iFJs5Y.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pass encoding kwarg to subprocess in platform