Revert "bpo-29571: Use correct locale encoding in test_re (#149)" (#554)

This reverts commit ace5c0f.

Author: benjaminp

Lib/test/test_re.py

@@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ def test_ascii_and_unicode_flag(self):
 
     def test_locale_flag(self):
         import locale
-        enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+        _, enc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
         # Search non-ASCII letter
         for i in range(128, 256):
             try:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -911,15 +911,6 @@ Tools/Demos
 Tests
 -----
 
-- bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS.
-  Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved
-  issues with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
-
-- Issue #29571: to match the behaviour of the ``re.LOCALE`` flag,
-  test_re.test_locale_flag now uses ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` to
-  determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly
-  skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
-
 - Issue #24932: Use proper command line parsing in _testembed
 
 - Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest