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Thank you for taking this on!

As stated in the issue:

some operations (e.g. file access to some known paths) decoding and encoding from/to any sort of unicode interpretation can be lossy, specifically when the file path on the filesystem has broken/mixed encoding characters.

In cases where encoding to UTF-8 helps, the user can do it themselves.
Encoding and decoding with surrogateescape, as suggested by @bitdancer, would work better.

The feature will also need tests and a note in the documentation.

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I afraid that this does not fix the original issue. Please read the discussion. It was also suggested to add support of bytes to all shlex module.