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UTF-8 Mode: TextIOWrapper.reconfigure should support encoding="locale" #91952
Description
Feature or enhancement
TextIOWrapper.__init__() supports encoding="locale" option.
But TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() doesn't support it yet.
Pitch
Scenario:
Users may set PYTHONUTF8=1 enviroment variable but want to use locale encoding for stdin/stdout.
They may want to do sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding="locale").
Activity
[-]PEP 686: TextIOWrapper.reconfigure should support `encoding="locale"`[/-][+]UTF-8 Mode: TextIOWrapper.reconfigure should support `encoding="locale"`[/+]gh-91952: Make TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() supports "locale" encoding (…