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Got "unknown encoding" error with Splunk python3

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I was tring to write a customized script to read data from API and decode in splunk , but got below error 

when decoding content with "gb2312",   

I tried with a very simple  script like below and could reproduce the issue in splunk in Mac Os

./splunk cmd python3 -c  "print(b'\xce\xd2'.decode('gb2312'))"

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BTW:  same script works in splunk in win10

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