gh-124476: Fix decoding from the locale encoding in the C.UTF-8 locale (GH-132477)

Author: serhiy-storchaka

Diff for: Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-04-13-17-18-01.gh-issue-124476.fvGfQ7.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix decoding from the locale encoding in the C.UTF-8 locale.

Diff for: Python/fileutils.c

@@ -528,15 +528,7 @@ decode_current_locale(const char* arg, wchar_t **wstr, size_t *wlen,
             break;
         }
 
-        if (converted == INCOMPLETE_CHARACTER) {
-            /* Incomplete character. This should never happen,
-               since we provide everything that we have -
-               unless there is a bug in the C library, or I
-               misunderstood how mbrtowc works. */
-            goto decode_error;
-        }
-
-        if (converted == DECODE_ERROR) {
+        if (converted == DECODE_ERROR || converted == INCOMPLETE_CHARACTER) {
             if (!surrogateescape) {
                 goto decode_error;
             }