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Author	vstinner
Recipients	deleted250130, vstinner
Date	2013-12-02.11:14:53
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Message-id	<1385982894.09.0.140392910897.issue19847@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"sys.getfilesystemencoding() says for Unix: On Unix, the encoding is the user’s preference according to the result of nl_langinfo(CODESET), or 'utf-8' if nl_langinfo(CODESET) failed." Oh, this documentation is wrong since at least Python 3.2: if nl_langinfo(CODESET) fails, Python exits immediatly with a (fatal) error. There is no (more?) such fallback to "utf-8".

"sys.getfilesystemencoding() says for Unix: On Unix, the encoding is the user’s preference according to the result of nl_langinfo(CODESET), or 'utf-8' if nl_langinfo(CODESET) failed."

Oh, this documentation is wrong since at least Python 3.2: if nl_langinfo(CODESET) fails, Python exits immediatly with a (fatal) error.

There is no (more?) such fallback to "utf-8".

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Date	User	Action	Args
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