From 6b3993c556eb3bb36d1754a17643cddd3f6ade92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:25:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gh-100750: pass encoding kwarg in lib/platform.py (#100751)

Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Lib/platform.py                                                 | 2 ++
 .../next/Library/2023-01-04-14-42-59.gh-issue-100750.iFJs5Y.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-04-14-42-59.gh-issue-100750.iFJs5Y.rst

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index b018046f5268d1..2dfaf76252db51 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))
@@ -824,6 +825,7 @@ def from_subprocess():
                 ['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 00000000000000..be351532822c4b
--- /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