Bug report

Bug description:

we are calling Py_Initialize and it fails with Fatal Python error: config_get_locale_encoding: failed to get the locale encoding: nl_langinfo(CODESET) failed

here is the my locale

% locale
LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

CPython versions tested on:

3.8

Operating systems tested on:

macOS Sonoma