AIX uses iso8859-1 in the C locale, not ASCII
AIX doesn't currently provide any of the locale
coercion locales, but we leave locale coercion
enabled in case one gets added in the future.
# Set our expectation for the default encoding used in the C locale
# for the filesystem encoding and the standard streams
-C_LOCALE_STREAM_ENCODING = "ascii"
+
+# AIX uses iso8859-1 in the C locale, other *nix platforms use ASCII
+if sys.platform.startswith("aix"):
+ C_LOCALE_STREAM_ENCODING = "iso8859-1"
+else:
+ C_LOCALE_STREAM_ENCODING = "ascii"
+
+# FS encoding is UTF-8 on macOS, other *nix platforms use the locale encoding
if sys.platform == "darwin":
C_LOCALE_FS_ENCODING = "utf-8"
else: