Ignore locale outside of Windows

The C calls I use are okay with UTF-8 on Unix platforms.

Author: HexDecimal

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ Changes relevant to the users of python-tcod are documented here.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) since version `2.0.0`.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- Ignore the locale when encoding file paths outside of Windows.
 
 ## [16.2.1] - 2023-09-24
 ### Fixed
-- Fixed errors loading files where their paths are non-ASCII and the C locale is not UTF-8.
+- Fixed errors loading files on Windows where their paths are non-ASCII and the locale is not UTF-8.
 
 ## [16.2.0] - 2023-09-20
 ### Changed

tcod/_internal.py

@@ -130,9 +130,11 @@ def _fmt(string: str, stacklevel: int = 2) -> bytes:
 
 
 def _path_encode(path: Path) -> bytes:
-    """Return a bytes file path for the current C locale."""
+    """Return a bytes file path for the current locale when on Windows, uses fsdecode for other platforms."""
+    if sys.platform != "win32":
+        return bytes(path)  # Sane and expected behavior for converting Path into bytes
     try:
-        return str(path).encode(locale.getlocale()[1] or "utf-8")
+        return str(path).encode(locale.getlocale()[1] or "utf-8")  # Stay classy, Windows
     except UnicodeEncodeError as exc:
         if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
             exc.add_note("""Consider calling 'locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPES, ".UTF8")' to support Unicode paths.""")